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Issue: Strange Tales #173
Publication Date: April 1974
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Issues: #173 of 20 Issues (33 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 01/15/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #103, January - February 1974.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Beware the Black Talon!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
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Pages: 1
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Sacrifice Play!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Detective Pete Watkins
First Line: Come in, child-- come in.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Brother Voodoo is continued in Tales of the Zombie (magazine) #6. The next issue blurb announces Man Wolf as the new feature but it instead appeared in Creatures on the Loose.
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Bait

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From Content Item: FlagWorld of Suspense #4 published October 1956
was Bait! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters page includes a reply to a fan explaining that Zombies were prohibited by the Comics Code from being used in color comics at the time. Includes Marvel Value Stamp #45 (Mantis) and an ad for Fantastic Four #145.

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