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Issue: Strange Tales #112
Publication Date: September 1963
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Issues: #112 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: 06/11/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in June 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements, and is the first issue of Strange Tales to be published without text pages.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Living Bomb!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as "The Living Bomb!" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Living Bomb!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke] (introduction, origin); Ted Braddock (TV commentator); Charles Lawson; Moxie Gahagan; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Wizard (cameo)
Synopsis: A TV host starts a public campaign against the Human Torch. The Torch’s efforts to regain his popularity fail, but when he stops the high tech thief the Eel from detonating a powerful bomb he is redeemed.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #15 published July 1968
as The Living Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #11 published August 1971
as La Torcia Umana affronta la minaccia della Bomba Vivente [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as "The Living Bomb!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-365
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Don't Miss Another Big One from Marvel!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo features a cover repro of the Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963).
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The Man Who Dared!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Karl King; Tibo
Synopsis: A gem merchant hears of the world's largest ruby guarded by a legendary giant statue in Tibet. He travels to Tibet and steals the ruby, but his escape is cut off by a boulder as he drives his jeep down the mountain pass and he is startled to see the giant statue is alive and pursuing him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [X-367 ?]
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Marvel Comics Group Ushers in the Marvel Age of Comics!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo includes cover repros of the Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1; Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 and the logo of X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) announcing that new series.
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I Saw the Impossible World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tom Bronson
Synopsis: A deserter from the Space Corps of the future finds a replica of his home town and friends on an alien world. A stranger reveals that they are illusions created from the imagination of those who visit this planet and that they disappear. The man is horrified to find that he too is only a figment of the stranger's imagination.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: X-368

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