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Issue: Strange Tales #107
Publication Date: April 1963
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Issues: #107 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: 01/10/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in January 1963. 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.
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Original Artwork
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The Human Torch vs. the Mighty Sub-Mariner

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #9 published July 1967
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]stamp size
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as untitled [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pays tribute to the various Torch/Sub-Mariner battles of the early 1940's!
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The Master of Flame vs. The Monarch of the Sea!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo)
Synopsis: The Human Torch goes looking for Sub-Mariner in order to beat him and win more respect. He traps Sub-Mariner beneath the ocean floor and returns to the surface.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Issue: FlagSeriepressen (Serie-pressen) #2/1971 published ?
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #9 published July 1967
as The Master of Flame vs. The Monarch of the Sea!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #9 published July 1971
as Faccia a faccia con il principe Namor, il potente Sub Mariner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #33 published May 1974
as Le maître de la flamme vs le monarque de la mer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Human Torch #7 published September 1975
as The Master of Flame Vs. the Monarch of the Sea!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #8 [Direct Edition] published July 1986
as Book VIII: Fateful Encounters! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as The Master of Flame Vs. the Monarch of the Sea!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-88
Disclose Notes: Sub-Mariner last appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (December 1963), and next appears in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (1963). This is the first Sub-Mariner story of the 1960s not drawn by Jack Kirby. Sub-Mariner exhibits the powers of a puffer fish and an electric eel, never seen again after this story!
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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
Disclose Notes: The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Human Torch story, while the second page is printed between "Secret Weapon!" and "The Treasure of Planetoid 12!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Info by Barry Pearl.
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Secret Weapon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fedor Zelinki
Synopsis: A Soviet spy steals a gas intended to make the US leadership invulnerable, and uses it on the Soviet leaders. They find that it is a trap and the gas shrinks them to the size of insects.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-89
Disclose Notes: Inks and letters credits by Barry Pearl; originally listed Larry Lieber (inks).
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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 per issue published October 1961–September 1962 (issues #93–103, despite monthly cover dates): 136,637.
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The Treasure of Planetoid 12!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Nast; Sam
Synopsis: In the year 2100 a criminal hijacks a spaceship to be the first man to claim the treasure of Planetoid 12. When he gets there, he finds nothing but water and mud. He thinks that it might be oil or something valuable, but after he drinks it he knows that it is merely water. The pilot that he forced along at gunpoint thinks he knows where the treasure is, but the criminal refuses to believe there is a treasure on Planetoid 12 at all until he reverts back into an infant. The pilot has realized the treasure is the fountain of youth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #22 published October 1975
as The Treasure of Planetoid 12! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLos Vengadores #17 published June 1981
as El tesoro del planetoide [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [X-90 ?]

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