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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 (168)
Publication Date: October 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/19/2011
Volume: 5
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780785150176
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Price: $72.99 CAD
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72 (59 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Reprints Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 Series) #40-48. Volume 168 in the Marvel Masterworks Library.
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Color: color
Dimensions: 7.5 in. x 10.25 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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The History of Atlas Horror/Fantasy: Post-Code 1955-1956

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[Strange Tales #40] The Man Who Caught a Mermaid?

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This Dark Cave

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A man returns to his shelter after he mistakes a small town that has been evacuated in service of atomic bomb tests for the worldwide war that he has feared would come.
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The Search

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Uwaga; Babu; Narodu
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A Stranger on Earth

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Lok
When an alien crash lands on Earth, he is met with violence by men, but is befriended and helped to return to his ship by a dog. From orbit he thinks about destroying the planet but realizes that would kill the dogs too and refrains from his plan.
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The Man Who Caught a Mermaid!

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Joe Blair; Jeremy Torgan
A man attempts to play a joke on a skeptical friend by hiring a girl with a mermaid costume to be dropped into the sea by a helicopter and then brought out of ocean with a net. The trick works on his friend and he tells his men to throw the girl back but the friend thinks he is mad to release such an amazing discovery. He lets the man know that he set the stunt up to fool him when one of his men tells him that the girl he had hired had become ill that day and never showed up for the prank.
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The End of Time!

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God intervenes directly to stop militarists from rushing towards war.
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No Place to Hide

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David Reynolds; Joshua Swift
A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.
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[Strange Tales #41] Man in the Dark

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The Riddle of the Skull

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The Search!

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Eric Dunbar; Isolda
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The Fishman

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Peter Maher; Elsa; Dr. Bondy
Peter Maher undergoes an operation that gives him gills so he can be with the water-breathing Elsa. Unfortunately, Elsa has the opposite surgery performed on her so she can be with the air-breathing Peter.
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The Strange Stick

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They Won't Believe

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Curt Calder
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Man in the Dark

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Daniel Reed; Amy Reed
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[Strange Tales #42] The Faceless One?

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The Faceless One

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Jefferson Horner; Lester Greer; Gilbert Horner; Doctor Lawrence
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The Collector

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Donald R. Donalds; Mister Kelt
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The Man Who Said No!

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Robert Chapin; Emil; Burt
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Moon-Man!

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The Vanishing Brain!

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Philip Hayden; Lorna Bond; Hank Cobb
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The Man in the Cell!

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Jim; Madge; Colin Stone; Ila; Torgan
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[Strange Tales #43] The Mysterious Machine!

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The Man Who Lived Twice!

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Hal Walters
A man dying on the operating table finds that time has stopped for everybody but him. He intuits that eventually time will start back up, but he uses the time he has been given to do good deeds for people.
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The Swami

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Rijak Lobar; John McDermott
A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have.
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I Saved Mankind!

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Lester Harmon
A man drives off aliens that were attempting to pour canisters into water reservoirs but the contents would have made people immune to disease.
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Behind the Mask!

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Joe Fenton; Agnes Fenton; Ogu
A clown who can't have children finds an abandoned baby and takes him in only to discover the seeming infant is an alien spy. He is about to turn the creature in until he overhears the spy give his report to his superiors and requests that he be able to remain a human infant since he loves his adoptive parents.
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The Mysterious Machine!

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Fred Harper; Louella Harper
A man invents a machine that changes his wife from harping shrew to devoted haus frau.
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The Unbelievable Man!

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Professor Bryce; Davis; Noah Javis
A man from 1793 uses a time machine to bring electronic parts from 1956 into the past for his experiments until he is interrupted by researchers. They force him to return to the past without the last component he needs for his work and all the electric lights around the world go out.
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Strange Tales #44

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The Man Who Ran Away!

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One World at a Time!

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Fred Cole; Professor Galton; Alice Towne
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The Stone

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The Mysterious Borderer

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Amy Jones; Felix Donald; Gina; Eileen
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Look Out Below!

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Robert Thornton; Dean Lanson
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Safari in the Sky!

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Luther Rousch; Hammond; Pritchard; Aubrey Pearce
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Take a Giant Step

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Bobby; Steve
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[Strange Tales #45] Land of Vanishing Men!

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Land of Vanishing Men

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Ted Benson; Joe Ausler; Larry Wiley
Three men who dream of the adventure of knights join a mirage in the desert set during the Crusades.
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The Night People

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Felix Hunter
A cowardly boy is ashamed when space aliens interrogate him for when would be the best time to invade and he is too frightened to even lie to them. They let him go so he can check the paper for the best time to invade and he regrets his cowardice. When he sees tomorrow is the fourth of July he tells the aliens to invade after nightfall and the fireworks display frightens them off.
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The Eyes of Mr. Moody!

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Orville Moody
A timid hypnotist hypnotizes himself hoping to give himself the daring to succeed in business, but after coming out of his trance, he realizes that the wealth he had thought he accumulated over the course of one year was all in his mind.
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The Strange Exchange!

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Anders
An employee of the state department who wishes for an out of the way assignment gets his wish when he becomes the envoy for the Martian embassy.
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The Impersonation

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The Man Who Went Back!

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A man who can experience the past in his imagination goes back to the creation.
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Sorry, Wrong Planet

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An alien with orders to colonize Earth lands and asks the first person he sees if he is on Earth. The man sarcastically answers him "No, it's Mars." The alien disappears and scientists detect through telescopes the colonization activity on Mars, which the alien has mistaken for Earth.
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[Strange Tales #46] You Must Not Look!

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The Sands Are Running Out

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Hiram Holt; Tom Fleming
A man acquires an hourglass which can send him into the future. He asks a pedestrian what year it is and the man replies '71. He assumes 1971 and learns of deposits in the land which make men wealthy and so uses the hourglass to return to the past again and spends all his money buying up the land. He goes into the future again to check his account at the bank and the clerk tells him he is not listed. When he mentions the year the clerk tells him that it is 2071. The man returns to the past and tries to sell off the land, but the previous sellers refuse to buy it back.
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The Man from Nowhere

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Joe Axel; Judy Axel
A Martian scientist who appears among humans by harnessing the power of lightning bolts finds that his method of travel disturbs people.
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Repeat Performance

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Ted; Alice; Paul Revere
A tourist couple encounter Paul Revere when he comes back to view Battle Green.
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Planet X

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Biff Holsum; Red
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The Wild, Wild Wind

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Fred Vernes; John Lawton
A ship directs its own course to the consternation of the sailors aboard and lands at a secluded island to rescue descendants of victims of a mutiny that had occurred aboard her timbers 100 years ago.
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You Must Not Look

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Charlie Boswell; Ada Boswell; Frederic Armstrong; Nora Armstrong
A little girl tears up an important letter to her father just to be spiteful after he grounds her. He asks her to tell the truth if she has seen it, and she lies, but her conscience bothers her and she keeps the letter in a box year after year. When she finally tells the truth about the box to her husband he looks in the box and finds money.
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The Greatest Experiment

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Scientists send robots into space for economic means by mining minerals from unexplored planets to fund their experiments. After a few years, they travel to the planet they sent the robots off to and are astonished to find that the robots have greatly developed it. They do not profit, however, as the robots turn the tables on them and put them on a rocket heading back to Earth.
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When Mankind Vanished!

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A businessman who dislikes humanity finds one day that he loses the ability to see them.
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Overflow

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Aliens from Neptune give up their invasion plans when they interact with actors from a Hollywood film set.
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When Sorcerers Meet!

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Chris Garson; Helen
A failed magician has his confidence restored when he stumbles across an enclave of sorcerers.
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The Trial of Dr. Volton!

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Emil Volton; Eddie; Stephan Purdy
An inventor finds himself in court when he apparently endangers his son's life in experiments, but the 'son' turns out to be a robot.
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Magic Melody

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Gus Harris; Mr. Peters
A boy without a family is given a vial filled with music, but squanders the inspiration of it.
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The New Member!

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An explorer's club turns down an applicant for membership because he has not hunted elephant or lion but he later reveals himself to be from another planet.
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The Hands

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Olga Forli; Grigor
A dictator is killed when the bullet he fires to silence a dissident ricochets and strikes him.
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Strange Tales #48

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The Deserted Lighthouse!

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Dumont
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The Man Who Stole a Skyscraper

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The Man in Space!

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Don Arlen; Jory; Ruth
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I've Got to Hide!

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Mitch; Amos Gallop; Marie
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Muscle Man

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Jimmy Binn; Tooloo
An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.
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Medicine Man!

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Harry Tinker
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The Last of Mister Grimm

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Henry Grimm
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