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Issue: Strange Tales #114

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Publication Date: November 1963

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Issues: #114 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: 08/08/1963

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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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)
4 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in August 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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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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Content Items (4 total)

Captain America Returns to Challenge the Human Torch!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Captain America [Carl Zante; also as The Acrobat]

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Pages: 1

The Human Torch Meets... "Captain America"

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante; disguised as Captain America]; Doris Evans; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo)

Synopsis: The Human Torch is upstaged by the return of Captain America, but the Torch realizes that it is his old enemy the Acrobat in disguise and defeats him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 18

Job Number: X-449

Notes: Acrobat last appears in issue #106 (March 1963). This story involving a Captain America imposter was a try-out to test the idea of reviving him. The real Cap would return only 4 months later in Avengers, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (March 1964).

Winner of the 1963 "Favorite Short Story" Alley Award.

"Cap" wears red trunks in this story instead of the usual blue.

The Bridge

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, occult

Character(s): Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks

Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [J-707]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: Occult

Character(s): Baron Mordo [Karl Amadeus Mordo, also as Sir Clive Bentley]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Ancient One [Yao]; Victoria Bentley (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: Strange is lured into a trap in England by Baron Mordo, but defeats him with the help of a woman with latent magical talents.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-450

Notes: Baron Mordo last appears in issue #111 (August 1963) and, not counting next issue's flashback, Mordo next appears in issue #117 (February 1964). Victoria Bentley next appears in issue #160 (September 1967). Inker is obviously George Roussos, though not credited on artwork. Stan Lee notes he was waiting for reader feedback after Strange's first appearances; this suggests Roussos may have inked this episode because of a very last-minute decision to begin running the series regularly.