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Issue: Strange Tales #157
Publication Date: June 1967
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Issues: #157 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: 03/02/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 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 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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Crisis!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Supreme Hydra [Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]; Laura Brown; Nick Fury
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAgente Internacional #23 published ?
In Content Item: FlagNick Fury Agent of SHIELD #2 published January 1984
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] [First Printing] published May 2000
as Crisis! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as Strange Tales #157 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2009
as Crisis! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagS.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2013
as Crisis! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Steranko coloring confirmed per checklist in Comic Book Marketplace # 28, October 1995.
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Crisis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Supreme Hydra [Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]; Laura Brown; HYDRA; Jasper Sitwell; ESP Division (cameo); Gabe Jones; Dum Dum Dugan; Nick Fury
Synopsis: Strucker announces that the impregnable dome over Hydra Island will keep them safe from the Death Spore plague and plans to use Fury's body as the basis for an army of HYDRA androids to police the world once he's dead from the Alpha Ray beam. Fury manages to escapes while SHIELD searches the Heli-Carrier for the bomb Fury takes on one group of HYDRA thugs after another until Strucker faces him one-on-one. With the use of his deadly Satan Claw Strucker gains the upper hand on Fury.
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In Content Item: FlagNick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] [First Printing] published May 2000
as Crisis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2009
as Crisis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagS.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2013
as Crisis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165 although the checklist in Comic Book Marketplace # 28, October 1995 states he was coloring beginning with # 157.

Part 8 of 9. 1st appearance of The Satan Claw. The nine-panel fight scene on page 7, as well as the lead-in final panel from page 6 appear to be an intentional homage to the Simon and Kirby scene of Jimmy Woo fighting the Yellow Claw's microscopic soldiers in Yellow Claw (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (February 1957).
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Dazzling Data, Dizzy Dispatches, and Dangerous Declarations of Rather Dubious Distinction!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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The End of the Ancient One!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Zom; The Ancient One; Doctor Strange [dr. Stephen Strange]; The Living Tribunal (introduction)
Synopsis: In order to pass his powers onto his desciple, The Ancient One allows Zom to defeat him. Before Strange's eyes, his mentor is fused with one of the giant rocks at Stonehenge, but not before he utters a warning. A battle ensues, until Strange manages to rip the forelock of hair from Zom's head-- at which point, an aura of evil is unleashed, and Zom declares that all is lost. From the horizon, a booming voice is heard, and Zom is banished. Strange turns to behold the towering sight of The Living Tribunal-- who declares that because of Strange's actions, Earth must be "totally destroyed"!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #63 published April 1968
as The End of the Ancient One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #64 published May 1968
as The End of the Ancient One! [Part Two] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Treasury Edition #6 [Regular Edition] published January 1975
as The End of the Ancient One! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as The End of the Ancient One! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Part 11 of 22; part 2 of Zom sequence. First appearance of The Living Tribunal.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Dear Stan, Until I got issue #154...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Kevin Karusek, and Barry Brookner. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.

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