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Issue: Strange Tales #159
Publication Date: August 1967
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Issues: #159 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/02/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Date stamp (1967-05-16) on front cover of indexer's copy. On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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Featuring: The Great Captain America!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
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In Issue: FlagAgente Internacional #25 published ?
In Content Item: FlagNick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #2 published January 1984
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCaptain America Special Edition #2 published March 1984
as Featuring: The Great Captain America! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCaptain America Spécial #[nn] published January 1985
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] [First Printing] published May 2000
as Featuring: The Great Captain America! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as Strange Tales #159 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2009
as Featuring: The Great Captain America! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagS.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] published October 2013
as Featuring: The Great Captain America! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Spy School

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Dum Dum Dugan; Jasper Sitwell; Nick Fury; Gabe Jones; Laura Brown; Yancy Street Gang (flashback cameo); Mamma Fury (flashback cameo); Jake Fury (unnamed; flashback cameo); The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro De Fontaine]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Synopsis: Fury reminisces with Laura about his days growing up in Hell's Kitchen; then at SHIELD HQ, offers her a job as an agent. Fury goes to the UNIT academy, where recruits undergo rigorous education. He meets two new agents: Sidney E. Levine, a tech expert and Val, who scoffs at his attitude that the spy game is man's work. Fury takes on Captain America in a display bout for the recruits, but gets dizzy due to a side-effect of the invisibility pill he used earlier. Cap tells him he's found out who was responsible for a job they tackled a year ago.
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In Issue: FlagNick Fury - Agent för SHIELD #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Britain #2 published October 1976
as Spy School! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 6-12; pp. 6-12
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Britain #1 published October 1976
as From Hell -- Fury! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pp. 1-5
In Content Item: FlagCaptain America Special Edition #2 published March 1984
as Spy School [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] [First Printing] published May 2000
as Spy School [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2009
as Spy School [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagS.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] published October 2013
as Spy School [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Part 1 of 9. 1st appearance of Fury's apartment, The Gaff & Val. Cap mentions the last time he & Fury met was when they fought "THEM"'s Humanoid Assassin in TALES OF SUSPENSE #78 (June 1966). That story was clearly Cap & Fury's 1st meeting since WW2 in SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS #13 (December 1964) as Cap had been trying to contact Fury for months about possibly becoming a SHIELD agent (seen in several issues of THE AVENGERS). Yet 4 pages later, Cap refers to a job they tackled together "a year ago" (Perhaps "The Big Blackout" took place immediately after TOS #78, as there was a break between issues #78 & #79). After loitering in the shadows outside Stark Industries for 2 months, Jasper Sitwell became a regular in the Iron Man series in TALES OF SUSPENSE #95 (November 1967).

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.
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Fabulous Facts and Frivolous Fables for Frantic Fans, Faithful Friends, and Fiendish Foes!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Nick Fury
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; list of 26 M.M.M.S. members
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"The Evil That Men Do..."

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dr. Strange; Wong; Umar (flashback); Zom (flashback); The Living Tribunal (cameo); Baron Mordo
Synopsis: Strange returns home to find his Sanctum gone! Wong, who barely escaped its destruction, recounts how Umar used a spell of vanishment. Strange dispels her enchantment and his house returns. Using the Crystal of Agamotto he senses evil mystic powers around the world. Casting a spell he discovers a group of mystics, banded together, working to free an imprisoned mystic to lead them. Strange strikes down the most powerful of the group, but is too late, they have freed Baron Mordo, his most hated enemy, knowing it will be impossible to convince him to join forces to save the Earth!
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #67 published May 1968
as The Evil That Men Do [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #68 published June 1968
as The Evil That Men Do... [Part 2] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as The Evil that Men Do... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Part 13 of 22; part 2 of the Living Tribunal sequence. While under an evil influence, Piper Halliwell once used an identical spell to Umar's to make her house vanish (and it was restored in the same way) in an episode of the tv show CHARMED.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Dear Stan, Verily Strange Tales #155 was the best magazine...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Burton Wolder; Mrs. Beatrice Juarez; and Mark Evanier. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.

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