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Issue: Strange Tales #105
Publication Date: February 1963
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Issues: #105 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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
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The Return of the Wizard!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard
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Pages: 1
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The Return of the Wizard!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo)
Synopsis: In prison, The Wizard becomes a model prisoner—just so he can become a trustee, work in the hospital, have access to chemicals...and break jail! The police soon have him surrounded in his house, but can't get in because of its defenses. He challenges the Torch to a battle to decide who is the better man. Against Sue's advice Johnny accepts the challenge, and he does pretty well until Sue shows up to "help" him. Thanks to her, he's caught, and both are almost killed in a bomb blast. But Johnny manages to free them both, get rid of the bomb, and corral the "superior intellect".
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-8
Disclose Notes: This is the second appearance of The Wizard (who last appears in issue #102 (November 1962). This is the first time a "Human Torch" villain returned; Wizard would go on to a very long career, mostly with "The Frightful Four". He next appears in issue #110 (July 1963), where he teams with Paste-Pot Pete for the first time.
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Discovery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee
Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: K-479
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Man Alone!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Fate; Robinson Crusoe
Synopsis: A man has recurring dreams of solitary confinement and goes to sea to escape this fate. He is shipwrecked and left alone on a desert island, unaware that this is the solitude he was destined for.
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Pages: 5
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The Supernatural!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: A house appears to be magically dismantled by wisps of smoke, but it is only a girl playing with her dollhouse while her father smokes.
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Pages: 5

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