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Issue: Strange Tales #156

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Publication Date: May 1967

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Issues: #156 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/07/1967

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (2 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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3 Strange Tales #156 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #156 [UK Cover Price]

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..When Umar Walks the Earth!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Dr. Strange; Zom

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Pages: 1

Notes: Marie Severin has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew.

The Tribunal!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Supreme Hydra ["Agent Bronson" (alias); Baron Strucker]; Laura Brown; Jasper Sitwell; Gabe Jones; Dum Dum Dugan; Nick Fury; HYDRA; CAMEOS: Fantastic Four [The Thing; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Thor; Scarlet Witch; Hawkeye; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; X-Men [Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Beast; Iceman; Cyclops; Marvel Girl; Professor X]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Goliath [Hank Pym]; Wasp

Synopsis: Fury's quarters are destroyed, apparently killing him! Bronson heads for Hydra Island, a futuristic, hi-tech fortress in the Pacific resuming his guise as Supreme Hydra. He announces to the world that he's placed a Death Spore bomb on board the Heli-Carrier which will unleash a plague upon the entire Earth! He plans to stage a fake trial for Laura, as an example to all who would defy him. Having suspected Bronson from the start, Fury who was hiding on board the Dyna-Soar is captured and discovers the true identity of the Supreme Hydra is Baron Strucker, his old foe from WW2!

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Pages: 12

Notes: Part 7 of 9. See various issues of SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS for earlier appearances of Baron Strucker. 24 years had elapsed between Fury & Strucker's last meeting and this one. Shortly after this comic's publication, the 007 film YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE would reveal the identity of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s "Number One", Ernst Stavros Blofeld; Donald Pleasence's onscreen appearance, bald with an odd, monocle-shaped scar, is similar to Strucker's.

In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165.

A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing!

In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Items; List of Marvel TV Stations; list of 26 M.M.M.S. members

Umar Walks the Earth!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Umar; Dr. Strange; The Ancient One; Wong; Zom

Synopsis: The Ancient One sends Strange to the Amphora, a large vase guarded by fiery demons in order to free Zom, a being imprisoned by Eternity. Umar comes to earth, destroys Strange's house and summons The Ancient One. Strange unleashes Zom who he persuades to follow him to Earth. The Ancient One lures Umar to Stonehenge where he defeated Dormammu in the past. Strange surprises Umar who flees back to The Dark Dimension, where Zom cannot find her! Zom had been bound by chains of living bondage by Dormammu and seeks vengeance, but with Umar gone he turns his anger against Strange & his mentor.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Part 10 of 22; part 6 of Umar sequence; part 1 of Zom sequence. Umar comes to Earth for 1st time.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Dear Stan, In the past few issues...

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Notes: Letters of comment from Wally Daniels; Shirley Gorman; Barry Brookner; and David Walker. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.