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Issue: Strange Tales #90
Publication Date: November 1961
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Issues: #90 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/08/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In9
reprinted 6 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagMonster Menace #4 published March 1994 as Orrgo...the Unconquerable! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagMarvel: August 1961 Omnibus #[nn] [unnamed variant] published January 2021
FlagMarvel: August 1961 #[nn] published January 2024
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets0
 
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Orrgo, the Unconquerable!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Orrgo... The Unconquerable!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo
Synopsis: An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as Orrgo...the Unconquerable! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #4 published March 1994
as Orrgo...the Unconquerable! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-364
Disclose Notes: Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001).
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #5 published August 1956
was Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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A Thousand Years Later...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam; Eve
Synopsis: A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Darkness #8 [unnamed variant] published December 1970
as A Thousand Years Later... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-365
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958).
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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The Inhuman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): X-35
Synopsis: In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as The Inhuman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #[nn] published January 1973
as The Inhuman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-366
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Germ Warfare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): John Marshall; Molitis germ
Synopsis: A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #6 published December 1966
as Germ Warfare [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-367
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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