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Issue: Strange Tales #84

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Publication Date: May 1961

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Issues: #84 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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Strange Tales #84 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #84 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

This is...Magneto!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Magneto [Hunk Larken]

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Pages: 1

The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Magneto [Hunk Larken]

Synopsis: A strong man is exploited and abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show. His size makes him the perfect pilot for an experimental space flight, on which he gains magnetic powers. He attacks society and runs amok until a rocket is created to take him into space and find somewhere where he can fit in.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-150

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Magneto!"(7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (first page not numbered then pages numbered 2 to 13).

The Inventor

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas

Synopsis: A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: F-889

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

Twelve Silent Men!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Victor Fabius; Sylvestor Weems

Synopsis: A greedy lawyer steals a time machine in order to profit from knowledge from the future. Once there he is tried for stealing the machine and his lies are useless against the telepathic jury.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-151

Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

They Met on Mars!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: Two beings in grotesque space suits fight on Mars. One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both humans: one from the US, one from the USSR.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-149

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