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Issue: Marvel Tales #8
Publication Date: May 1967
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Issues: #8 of 289 Issues (612 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 02/02/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#3-33 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Character(s): Thor; Carbon-Copy Man [Zano]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2007
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Direct] published January 2010
as Marvel Tales Annual #1, Marvel Tales #3-27, and Special Marvel Edition #1-2 Cover Reprints [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Poder y Responsabilidad #[nn] published April 2014
as El Enigma Arácnido [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #90 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was The Carbon Copy Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1/4 page
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #106 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was The Threat of the Torrid Twosome! [Illustration on Cover, Front]0.25 page
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #13 [Regular Edition] published June 1964
was Mysterio! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Contents page includes images from interior stories and staff credits, including Sol Brodsky, Roy Thomas, John Verpoorten, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and Flo Steinberg.
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The Menace of... Mysterio!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mysterio [Quentin Beck] (introduction); J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant; Flash Thompson; Liz Allan; Aunt May Parker
Synopsis: Mysterio first frames Spider-Man for a crime wave, then challenges him to a battle on top of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #13 [Regular Edition] published June 1964
was The Menace of... Mysterio! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #13 [Regular Edition] published June 1964
was The Menace of... Mysterio! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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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]; Carl Zante [Acrobat] (Intro); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Miracle Man (flashback); Sub-Mariner (flashback); Dr. 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
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #106 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was The Threat of the Torrid Twosome [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items, The Wrap-Up!, Here's a Brand New List of Marvel TV Stations, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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When Wakes the Colossus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
Character(s): Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo); Mingo; Vikor; Colossus
Synopsis: An alien warlord builds a giant statue to intimidate the superstitious, but it comes to life and takes the side of the rebels against him.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #53 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1964
was When Wakes the Colossus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Trapped By the Carbon-Copy Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor; Ugarth, War Lord of Xarta; Zano; Don Blake; Odin; Jane Foster; Mayor Harris; Carbon-Copy Man [Zano]
Synopsis: The heir to the throne of a race of shape-shifting aliens leads an attack on Earth as his rite of passage. The aliens replace officials in New York and disrupt the government, but Thor discovers their plan and defeats them.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #90 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was Trapped by the Carbon-Copy Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13

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