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Issue: Strange Tales #89

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Publication Date: October 1961

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Issues: #89 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 #89 [U.S. Cover Price]

3 Strange Tales #89 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Fin Fang Foom!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Fin Fang Foom

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Pages: 1

Fin Fang Foom!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Fin Fang Foom (introduction); Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow

Synopsis: A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its lair before restoring its mystical slumber.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-318

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: part one (6 pp) and part two (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
Fin Fang Foom next appears in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (April 1974).

The Future

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ted Jason

Synopsis: A quiz show host finds himself mysteriously transported to the far future for a brief time.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-318

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

The Green Things!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Martin Kastle

Synopsis: A wealthy retiree keeps a magnificent greenhouse, where he talks to the plants. When a burglar tries to kill him, his plants come to life and stop the intruder, saving their friend's life.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-320

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

The Touch of Midas!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Simon Kluge

Synopsis: A greedy man locates the source of Midas’s power, planning to stop the undesirable effects with gloves. He gains the power but finds that his gloves turn to gold, dooming him to the same fate as Midas.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-319

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