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Issue: Strange Tales #61
Publication Date: February 1958
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Issues: #61 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 09/27/1957
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Laundry Machines!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #153 published January 1975
as Laundry Machines! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #187 published January 1979
as Laundry Machines! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This cover does not depict the story within.
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The Laundry Machines!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Nicholas Flood
Synopsis: A landlord squeezes a Haitian laundress for more rent and is made ill by voodoo. He has her deported, but the box holding the pills to cure him contains only more boxes, one within the next.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-351
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
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The Spectre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Burt Malone; Mysto the Mystic
Synopsis: A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost. His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe, but the reappearance of the ghost after the mystic’s crystal breaks suggests that it is real.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-347
Disclose Notes: Some sources credit Doug Wildey as artist.
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The Miracle Painting

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult, romantic
Character(s): Franz; Mr. Joseff; Marianne Le Brun
Synopsis: A shy and artistic tour guide wins the love of a wealthy girl when an unknown force alters his painting to make it a proposal.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #149 published August 1956
was Palace of Truth [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Palace of Truth"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-174
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The Disappearing Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Farrell; Ellis; Clay
Synopsis: A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension. His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-310
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Menace of the Mirror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Raynor; Garson
Synopsis: A scientist thinks he has invented a machine to give life to reflections in a mirror, but when he tests it he realizes that he himself is a reflection.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-352
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
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Fear Walks on Four Feet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lester Morse; Jim Andrews; Ruth Andrews; Hampton
Synopsis: A man tries to ruin his partner and romantic rival. He overpowers a ray intended to capture a lion and it explodes. He seems to be blown into the past and hides for a year, but actually the ray's malfunction created a dinosaur out of a fossil, and his partner became rich in his absence.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-331
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
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The Eyes That Never Close!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Jeff Corley; Leo Hutten
Synopsis: A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-412

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