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Issue: Strange Tales #93
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #93 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: 11/09/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in November 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 In7
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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The Wax People

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #22 published April 1973
as The Monster Runs Amok! [Illustration on Cover, Front]splash page of "When the Thing Runs Amok!" with some alterations
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #134 published January 1974
as The Wax People [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When the Thing Runs Amok!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Jason Burke; Clara Burke; X-13
Synopsis: An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #22 published April 1973
as When the Monster Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]p2–7, as "When the Monster Strikes!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-465
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The Magician

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Howard; Uncle Bart
Synopsis: A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #34 published August 1955
was The Magician [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-719
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Steve Miller; "Don Russell"; Nan Miller
Synopsis: An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #27 published November 1973
as Earth Will Be Lost Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Mister Black

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Miko Kyusha; Mr. Black
Synopsis: A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #13 published April 1973
as Mister Black [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) as "The Voice of Fate!".
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The Wax People!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #22 published April 1973
as The Wax People! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #25/1987 published January 1987
as Voksfolket! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-468
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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