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Issue: Strange Tales #83

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Publication Date: April 1961

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Issues: #83 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 (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 #83 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #83 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Grogg Is Here!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Grogg

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Pages: 1

From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Grogg (introduction); Miklos Kozlov (introduction); Col. Fedor Vorcutsky

Synopsis: A reluctant Soviet scientist wakes the ancient dragon Grogg with atomic tests. The dragon attacks the soldiers and gives the scientist the opportunity to defect to the US, just as he had hoped, since he knew in advance that Grogg existed.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-107

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and
part two—"The Awesome Vengeance of Grogg" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
The last page includes an editorial note that reads: "Want to see MORE of Grogg? Write Stan Lee, Strange Tales, 655 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. 21, N.Y."

Grogg and Kozlov next appear in issue #87 (August 1961).

Make a Wish

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Gerald Harper; Jimmy Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Mr. Gordon

Synopsis: A man invents a wishing machine but loses the prototype on the way to the patent office.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.75

Job Number: G-301

Notes: Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the lead story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Masquerade Party

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Cara Frost; Alice Bond (née Dodd); Rex Bond

Synopsis: A beautiful but vicious socialite spoils the plans of an old rival by throwing a masquerade party. She is scared by her rival’s husband, who tricks her into thinking he is a demon.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-106

Notes: The last two panels were added by a different artist, possibly Sol Brodsky, likely due to a Comics Code problem. The ending is altered so that the demon/devil is a normal man in disguise.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.25

Notes: This shares the last page of "Make a Wish". Average circulation of each issue published October 1959–September 1960 (issues #73–81): 169,601.

The Menace of Shandu!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Tommy Jones; Shandu the genie

Synopsis: A boy finds a magic book in a used bookstore and summons a genie, which vows to torture him after granting his wish. He wishes for everything to be restored to before he went to the bookshop, and he does not buy the book a second time.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-108

Notes: The plot for this story was reused in "It's Only Magic!" by Stan Lee and John Buscema in Chamber of Darkness # 1, October 1969.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).