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Issue: Strange Tales #80

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Publication Date: January 1961

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Issues: #80 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)

Title:

Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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2 Strange Tales #80 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #80 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Gargantus!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gargantus (sea monster)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: New logo this issue, likely redesigned by Artie Simek.

What? What? What Was Gargantus!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Dan; Billy; Gargantus (sea monster, introduction)

Synopsis: A deep sea explorer encounters a giant reptile that follows him back to the surface. The creature explores the surface, causing panic until it faints due to its inability to breathe air and is dumped back into the sea.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-982

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gargantus next appears in issue #85 (June 1961).
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6, last page not numbered).

Time Machine

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: G-85

Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

The Things from Dimension X!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Lynwood; Koaa

Synopsis: A scientist successfully creates a link to the dimension Electra only to find the inhabitants bent on conquest. They pour through the portal but are stopped when the carved presidents on Mt. Rushmore come to life and drive them back.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (first page not numbered then pages numbered 2 to 6).

Hayden suggests that the angular letters and diagonal exclamation points suggest Sam Rosen (as
opposed to his brother Joe).

The Door They Dare Not Open!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bruno Zuknik

Synopsis: A prison warden treats inmates with kindness, and relies on an honor system to prevent them from opening the one closed door. A new prisoner defies the code and opens the door, but is taken to the warden's alien world to do hard labor.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-953

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Trapped in the Room of Shadows

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Sanford Kindwell; Kroger

Synopsis: A millionaire looks for magical wishing stones with which he hopes to help all humanity. His greedy guide tries to steal the first stone, but only succeeds in using up its power and trapping himself.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).