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Issue: Strange Tales #98

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Publication Date: July 1962

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Issues: #98 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.

On Sale Date: (not set)

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 #98 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #98 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

No Human Can Beat Me!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

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Pages: 1

No Human Can Beat Me!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Frank Taylor

Synopsis: An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded. The alien defeats all comers until one man challenges it to sleep longer than him, claiming to have slept for one million years. The alien vows to sleep for two million years. Guards are set up around the cave to keep anyone from disturbing the creature and the man's formerly nagging wife is eternally grateful to him for saving Earth.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Narrated in the first person. The third and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

The Party

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Mr. Braggle

Synopsis: A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [J-959]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

They Vanished Forever!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Captain William Reynolds; Thomas Clark; Flying Dutchman; Ghosts

Synopsis: Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-728

Notes: The second and fifth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

The TV Fan!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Laura Wentworth; Pete Sloan

Synopsis: A lazy cad tricks a rich girl into marrying him so that he can watch TV all day. His wife sees her mistake and reveals that she’s a witch, turning him into a fan on the television: a ‘tv fan’.

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Pages: 5

Notes: The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

A Fortune in Beans!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Mr. Bixby

Synopsis: A bean seller is chagrined to find that he has competition from the Giant, of Jack and Beanstalk fame, who has decided to go into business selling his giant beans.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-730

Notes: The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.