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Issue: Strange Tales #100
Publication Date: August 1962
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Issues: #100 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
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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:
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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 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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I Was Trapped in the Crazy Maze!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Charlie Burke
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Pages: 1
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The Man in the Crazy Maze

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Charlie Burke; Mr. Johnson; Fate
Synopsis: A carnival owner cons patrons with an impossible maze, and kills a reporter that might expose him. He is trapped in another maze with only one exit, into hell.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: [V-811 ?]
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Blueprint for Victory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Inker(s): ? (illustration)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Lt. Col. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Capt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz
Synopsis: A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-60
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Imitation Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Carlos Zarago; Pedro Lopez
Synopsis: A dictator forces a scientist to use his duplicator machine on him so that he can have a substitute appear in public places to avoid assassination attempts. The duplicate is too much like the original, however, and refuses to expose himself to danger when he can seize power to rule the country. The dictator returns to the machine with the intent of destroying it only to find it has continually been producing duplicates. While the duplicates are arguing among themselves, a revolution occurs, and the new democratic regime deports all versions of the former dictator.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-812
Disclose Notes: Zarago the tyrant of an oppressed nation in the story resembles Fidel Castro.
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Beware the Uboongi!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Americans flee Uranus due to ferocious wildlife. The Soviets take the opportunity to land their own expedition, but because they ignore the American warnings they do not realize that the sheep-like creatures in the mountains are the deadly Uboongi.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-813
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The Mighty Oak!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An atomic test gives an oak tree the ability to think and move, and it plots the destruction of humanity's implements of war and crime. At the end of the story the scientists are revealed to be knowledgeable as to what effect the atomic test would have upon the oak and they are willing to accept the oak and its offspring will provide better governance of Earth than humanity.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-814

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