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Issue: Strange Tales #70
Publication Date: August 1959
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Issues: #70 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 04/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in April 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered.

Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In3
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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When Wakes the Sphinx!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Giant Walks the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wilbur Fiske
Synopsis: A short lab assistant works on a growth serum to gain a normal man's height. The serum works too well, and he continues to grow so tall his life is endangered when the air becomes too thin to breathe. Just as he is about to black out, the serum wears off, and he is restored to his original height having learned to be satisfied with the way he is.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #7 published December 1974
as A Giant Walks the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-299
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The Comic

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Stan Wepp
Synopsis: A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #45 published May 1956
was The Comic [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-214
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Earth in Chains!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Xmmp; Knnj; Gyyypo
Synopsis: Aliens from the planet Regulus colonize Earth, treating humans as little more than animals. They must withdraw only because of their vulnerability to Earth's germs.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-279
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Ghost Ship!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dan; Ralph
Synopsis: The US Coast Guard finds an abandoned Soviet submarine. The log book shows that they mistook an alien craft for an experimental American ship and tried to ram it. The aliens boarded the submarine, and the fate of the crew is unknown.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #202 published January 1983
as Ghost Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-307
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Escape to Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Palmer; Prof. Alvin Whitehead
Synopsis: A criminal hears of the invention of a time machine. He robs a bank and then escapes 50 years into the future. Once there, he discovers that under the new world government, US money is useless. The technology of the police makes crime impossible, so he is forced into hard labour to survive.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-308
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Set in 1960.
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When Wakes the Sphinx!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ahmend; Okzik; Zokae
Synopsis: An Egyptian and a tourist see the Sphinx come to life and chase off Alien invaders.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #14 [unnamed variant] published December 1974
as When Wakes the Sphinx! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-291

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