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Issue: Strange Tales #109

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Publication Date: June 1963

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Issues: #109 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: 03/12/1963

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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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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Strange Tales #109 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #109 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Imps from Pandora's Box!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone]

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Pages: 1

The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone] (introduction); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Pandora (flashback); Circe (flashback)

Synopsis: The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora’s Box for his own profit.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: [X-183 ?]

Notes: The Sorcerer and his mansion in the country appears to be a tribute to Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) from the film Night of the Demon (1957). A woman who used "Pandora's Box" to commit crimes turned up in the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "Here Comes Trubble".

The Comic

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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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.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-214

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Earth Is Off-Limits!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. The crew asks for chance to explain, but mission control breaks the communication as they cannot bear to listen to their pleas. What the space explorers were trying to say before their communication line was broken was that the life on the planet grants disease immunity and long life span.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-185

Time Was...

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Eric Kane

Synopsis: A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times. When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a neanderthal.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-184