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Issue: Strange Tales #143

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Publication Date: April 1966

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Issues: #143 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)

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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

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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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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Strange Tales #143 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #143 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

To Free a Brain Slave!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Nick Fury; Mentallo; The Fixer

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To Free a Brain Slave

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Dum Dum Dugan; Mentallo; Nick Fury; The Fixer; Gabe Jones; Tony Stark; ESP Division

Synopsis: SHIELD HQ is taken over by Mentallo & The Fixer who hold Fury prisoner. Tony Stark takes command of the combat unit, preparing his Neutralizer while the ESP Division is unable to pick up Fury's thoughts. Meanwhile the villains attach a miniature H-Bomb to Fury's wrists and remove the mind-control mask. Fury is able to send a signal to the ESP team allowing SHIELD to retaliate and Stark's Neutralizer dissolves the H-Bomb. Mentallo & The Fixer are captured with the help of SHIELD's Metronome Unit and the threat of Mentallo's powers is wiped out by the ESP division.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Part 3 of 3. Fixer mentions the H-Bomb was supplied by "THEM". Without their helmets, The Fixer & Mentallo bear a striking resemblance to DC's Lex Luthor & Brainiac!

More Mirthful, Monumental, Mind-Staggaring Memoranda From Your Marvel Madmen!

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: M.M.M.S. order blank; items; Let's Meet 26 more M.M.M.S. Members!; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.

With None Beside Me!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Dr. Strange; The Demon [Demonicus] (unnamed); The Witch [Adria] (unnamed); Kaecilius (unnamed)

Synopsis: Strange hides his bound body in a rooftop water tank, as The Demon & his men search for him. At their HQ, Strange retrieves his Cloak Of Levitation, and uses it to capture one of Mordo's men. But his body has been found by the witch. The complex cat-and-mouse game continues until Strange finally regains control of his body and Amulet, and he hypnotizes Mordo's minions into forgetting all they know of black magic. Now he is free again to focus on the remaining threat of Dormammu, and the missing Clea...

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Notes: Part 14 of 17. 1st early DR. STRANGE story never reprinted until 1978.

[untitled]

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Letters from Dan O'Leary, Jeff Weiselberg, and Robert Krug with an accompanying illustration.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Notes: Total copies printed (average in last 12 months): 380992. Total copies printed (issue nearest to filing date): 455625. Total paid circulation (average in last 12 months): 230285. Total paid circulation (issue nearest to filing date): 299425. Total distribution (average in last 12 months): 230345. Total distribution (issue nearest to filing date): 299485. Office use, left-over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing (average in last 12 months): 150647. Office use, left-over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing (issue nearest to filing date): 156140. Filing Date: October 1, 1965.