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Issue: Strange Tales #90
Publication Date: November 1961
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Issues: #90 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: none entered
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, changes include; no cover month, replaced price tag, and distribution data added to indicia.
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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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Orrgo, the Unconquerable!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Orrgo... The Unconquerable!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo
Synopsis: An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-364
Disclose Notes: Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001).
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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A Thousand Years Later...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam; Eve
Synopsis: A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-365
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958).
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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The Inhuman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): X-35
Synopsis: In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-366
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Germ Warfare

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): John Marshall; Molitis germ
Synopsis: A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-367
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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