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Issue: Strange Tales #96
Publication Date: May 1962
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Issues: #96 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: 02/08/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in February 1962. 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 In6
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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I Dream of Doom!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Frank Atwell
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Dream of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Frank Atwell
Synopsis: Frank Atwell can't sleep because he has nightmares in which a monster tries to catch him. His doctor sedates him and he sleeps so heavily that the monster catches him before he can wake up. He discovers his dream world is the real world, and he is its king, while the mundane world was a dream, or was it?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #7 published May 1972
as I Dream of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDead of Night #10 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1975
as I Dream of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-628
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The Universal Gadget

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Bill Jordan
Synopsis: A mysterious salesman offers a product that can do anything, but his customer decides that his ordinary contentment is better than the risk of the unknown.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #30 published January 1956
was Universal Gadget [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-254
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The Impossible Tunnel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Robert Saunders; Omor
Synopsis: Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe. He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #16 published March 1972
as The Impossible Tunnel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #36 [unnamed variant] published July 1975
as The Impossible Tunnel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-629
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Beware the Future Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Elsa Peterson
Synopsis: A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state. The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #15 [unnamed variant] published July 1975
as Beware the Future Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-630
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: This shares the last page of "The Universal Gadget". Average circulation of each issue published October 1960–September 1961 (issues #82–92, despite monthly cover dates): 191,261.
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The Clock-Maker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect. When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him. The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #11 [unnamed variant] published August 1975
as The Clock-Maker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-627

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