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Issue: Strange Tales #62
Publication Date: April 1958
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Issues: #62 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: 11/25/1957
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in November 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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dirk Rollery; Lialda
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joe Maneely’s signature is located between the tally marks and the sink.
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The Girl Who Walked Thru Stone!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dirk Rollery; Lialda
Synopsis: A miner caves in the shaft he works to aid a beautiful girl from an underground kingdom. No one believes him and he is jailed, but the girl returns in a digging machine to rescue him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-256
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The Man Nobody Knew!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tom Thurty; Jack Mallory; Mary Hicks; Floyd Birke; Bat Parson; Burt Peters; Frank Blaine
Synopsis: The obituary editor of a newspaper sees events before they happen. The source of his abilities is found after he turns in his last story, when his replacement discovers the obituary he wrote for himself years previously.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-287
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
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The Invaders!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rul; Garth
Synopsis: An undersea invasion is foiled when their scouting expedition is confused by their contemptuous reception from an old woman who takes them for actors.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-322
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
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Filled with Hate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Josef
Synopsis: An old zoo-keeper instinctively recognizes the evil in a new specimen. It is an alien sent to turn the animals against humans, but it is killed by the zoo's gorilla, the animal closest to humans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-410
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It Happened That Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): George Bowers
Synopsis: A skeptical man mocks an Indian mystic, but he is convinced by a terrifying illusion in which he gains the ability to see the coming of death.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-84
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 Window

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Howard Stevens
Synopsis: A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Terror #17 published March 1953
was The Window [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.8
Job Number: B-959
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Appears alongside the second part of the "The Window" text story.
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Alone in the Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror, occult
Character(s): Fred Standish; Nora Nichols
Synopsis: A thief seduces a rich young woman alone on a moored yacht. When he tries to rob her safe he finds the yacht drifting out to sea. The woman waves goodbye from the dock, explaining that she too was a thief, cursed to stay aboard for five years until someone took her place.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-289

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