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Issue: Strange Tales #92
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #92 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: 09/28/1961
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 September 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 In5
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Disclose Content Items (6 total)
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The Thing Waits for Me!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #23 [unnamed variant] published September 1973
as The Monster Waits for Me! [Illustration on Cover, Front]as "The Monster Waits for Me!"; original title "The Thing Hunts for Me!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Thing Hunts for Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #23 [unnamed variant] published September 1973
as The Monster Hunts for Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Thing Hunts for Me!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-453
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The Flying Saucer That Was

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): George Ridley; Monroe Marks; Dr. Willard Seldin; Harry Landau
Synopsis: A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #12 published June 1953
was The Flying Saucer That Was [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: C-486
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Man Who Shrunk the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Roderick Kane (villain, death?)
Synopsis: A man from the future travels back to the 1960s to conquer the world with a shrinking gas. When he tests the gas on himself he becomes too small to release the antidote and shrinks to nothingness.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-454
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Somewhere Sits a Lama

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A villager sneaks into a nearby monastery to find the secret of eternal life. He finds the secret, but in order to live forever he must stay motionless in one room until someone comes to take his place.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-455
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Inside the Flying Saucer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: This story shows an audience watching a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the audience leaves the theatre and looks up at the Earth from their home on Mars.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #27 published January 1962
as Inside the Flying Saucer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #23 [unnamed variant] published September 1973
as Inside the Flying Saucer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVoodoo #4 published ?
as Inside the Flying Saucer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-456
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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