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Issue: Strange Tales #109
Publication Date: June 1963
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Issues: #109 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/12/1963
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 March 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 In10
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Imps from Pandora's Box!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #11 published November 1967
as Spidey Battles Daredevil! [Illustration on Cover, Front]p. 11, panel 4 of Torch story
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as Imps from Pandora's Box! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagLos 4 Fantásticos #33 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone] (introduction); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Pandora (flashback); Circe (flashback)
Synopsis: The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora’s Box for his own profit.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #11 published November 1967
as The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #10 published August 1971
as Lo Stregone e la scatola di Pandora [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes and the Occult Winter Special #[nn] published November 1980
as The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: [X-183 ?]
Disclose Notes: The Sorcerer and his mansion in the country appears to be a tribute to Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) from the film Night of the Demon (1957). A woman who used "Pandora's Box" to commit crimes turned up in the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "Here Comes Trubble".
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The Comic

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): Stan Wepp
Synopsis: A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #45 published May 1956
was The Comic [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-214
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Earth Is Off-Limits!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. The crew asks for chance to explain, but mission control breaks the communication as they cannot bear to listen to their pleas. What the space explorers were trying to say before their communication line was broken was that the life on the planet grants disease immunity and long life span.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPow! and Wham! #69 published May 1968
as Earth is Out of Bounds [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]Retitled and re-edited into 2 pages.
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-185
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Time Was...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Eric Kane
Synopsis: A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times. When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a neanderthal.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-184

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