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Issue: Strange Tales #106
Publication Date: March 1963
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Issues: #106 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: 12/10/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 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:  
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Disclose Reprinted In13
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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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Original Artwork
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The Threat of the Torrid Twosome!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #8 published May 1967
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]0.25 page
In Content Item: FlagFakkelen og Jernmannen #3/1968 published January 1968
as Skurkenes skrekk [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as "The Threat of the Torrid Twosome!" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Dick Ayers per Henry Kujawa (22 August 2007). Previous indexer credited George Roussos.
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The Threat of the Torrid Twosome

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante] (introduction); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Miracle Man [Joshua Ayers] (flashback); Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie] (flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom] (flashback)
Synopsis: The Acrobat tricks the Human Torch into helping him rob a bank before double crossing him. The Torch chases and captures the thief with the help of the Fantastic Four.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #8 published May 1967
as The Threat of the Torrid Twosome [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFakkelen og Jernmannen #3/1968 published January 1968
as Skurkenes skrekk [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #8 published July 1971
as La minaccia del terribile duo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Human Torch #6 published July 1975
as The Threat of the Torrid Twosome [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as The Threat of the Torrid Twosome [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: The Acrobat next appears in issue #114 (November 1963). This is the first appearance of Johnny's obstacle training course and the last story in which Johnny worries about having a "secret identity".
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The Recipe

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Josie
Synopsis: A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #150 published September 1956
was The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-338
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Man on the Scaffold!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Willie Wopper; Sam; Charlie
First Line: Willie Wopper was a teller of tall tales!
Synopsis: A teller of tall tales becomes the butt of some ribbing when he tries to tell his fellow painters that he has acquired some magic paints. When the cable of the scaffold they are working on breaks, the advertising poster the men were painting in comes to life and lowers them to the ground. The amazed painters feel they owe their lives to the magic paint, but the painter is smug in the knowledge that the scaffold never really fell but his paint allowed him to hypnotize his coworkers into believing it did and that they were saved by the poster.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastiske Fire og Edderkoppen #9/1968 published September 1968
as Mannen på stillaset! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1-3
In Content Item: FlagFantastiske Fire og Edderkoppen #10/1968 published October 1968
as Mannen på stillaset [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 4-5
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #21 published September 1975
as Man on the Scaffold! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Mystery of the Purple Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bentley
Synopsis: A space expedition is sent to a distant planet when it is suddenly covered with an artificial mist. The team finds gold and takes it, but are transformed into aliens like the inhabitants.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-63
Disclose Notes: Script and letters credits by Barry Pearl.

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