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Issue: Strange Tales #31
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 05/14/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1954 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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Title Page
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The Man Who Played with Blocks!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as Strange Tales #31 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Man Who Played with Blocks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
horror
Herman Pringle; Mr. Browder; Mary
A toy maker gets a hold of wood leftovers from coffin construction and builds toy blocks from them. Like a voodoo figurine, whatever is built from the blocks is destroyed when the blocks are scattered.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Man Who Played With Blocks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
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The Living Legend

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
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?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Robert Weirton; Vance Thane
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Living Legend [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Tales #110 published December 1952
was No Such Animal? [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Living Legend"
 
Miscellaneous
2
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The Bum!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
A bum involved in a train wreck regrets when he takes the clothes off a prosperous man and leaves him to die, only to be arrested by the police and learns that they have mistaken him for a different bum that committed murder earlier and stole the victim's clothes.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Bum! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
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The Money Tree!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Professor Wilson; Filmore; Ace Horton
A professor is killed by a gangster who funded his money tree project when the tree only produces three dollar bills.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Money Tree! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
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The First Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
horror
Jackson Cole; Narim; Abena
A mountain climber wants to be the first man atop Mount Ka, and he succeeds, but he finds that still he has been preceded to the summit...by a werewolf.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The First Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
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The Strange Ones!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Falten
Scientists search for a mutant to tame their atomic pile but he has undergone a procedure that makes him normal.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Strange Ones! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
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