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Issue: Strange Tales #85

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Publication Date: June 1961

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Issues: #85 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 #85 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #85 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Return of Gargantus!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gargantus (sea monster)

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Pages: 1

The Return of Gargantus!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gargantus (sea monster); Bill; Anne; Frank

Synopsis: Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world. The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-171

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gargantus" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).

Gargantus last appeared in issue #80 (January 1961); he next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

New Glasses

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Herbert; Mr. Blooper

Synopsis: A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-368

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

The Man Who Fell!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Hans; Katrina; Albert

Synopsis: A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes that a chandelier above him is coming loose.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-173

Notes: This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #48 (December 1963) as "Kraddak" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber.

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

The Ape Man

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Salty Gruner; Ape Man

Synopsis: A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit. Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-172

Notes: This story seems similar to "Gorilla Man" drawn by Robert Q. Sale in Men's Adventures (Marvel, 1950 series) #25 (March 1954).

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