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Issue: Strange Tales #93

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Publication Date: February 1962

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Issues: #93 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.

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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)
6 (5 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 #93 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #93 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Wax People

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

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Pages: 1

When the Thing Runs Amok!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Jason Burke; Clara Burke; X-13

Synopsis: An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-465

The Magician

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Inker(s): ? (illustration)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Howard; Uncle Bart

Synopsis: A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: G-719

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Steve Miller; "Don Russell"; Nan Miller

Synopsis: An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career.

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Pages: 6

Mister Black

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Miko Kyusha; Mr. Black

Synopsis: A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls.

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Pages: 5

Notes: This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) as "The Voice of Fate!".

The Wax People!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-468

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.