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Issue: Strange Tales #87

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Publication Date: August 1961

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Issues: #87 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)
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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2 Strange Tales #87 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #87 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Return of Grogg!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Grogg

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Pages: 1

The Return of...Grogg!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Miklos Koslov; Ivan Grotsky; Grogg

Synopsis: Koslov is sent back to Russia as a spy, and discovers that the dragon Grogg is still on the loose. He lures Grogg into a Soviet rocket and launches it on its mission to Mars, knowing that if the Soviets ever travel to Mars they will find an enraged dragon.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-237

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Grogg" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13). Grogg last appeared in issue #83 (April 1961); his next published appearance is in Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (January 2005), while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

Peril on Paper

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Jon Randall; Hannes Bache

Synopsis: An artist alters a matter transmitter to create images out of the human imagination, but more than just the image of the imagined monster is created.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: B-213

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

The Lighthouse from Nowhere!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: A lighthouse appears by a village, but their teacher feels they shouldn’t use it unearned and destroys it. They build a new one, never knowing that the first was a beacon for an alien invasion, now aborted.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-239

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Macabre Mirror!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Carlotta

Synopsis: A greedy duke taxes his people into poverty. When he ignores a gypsy's warnings and tries to seize her ancient mirror he finds himself imprisoned within it forever, freeing his subjects.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-238

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).