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Issue: Strange Tales #63
Publication Date: June 1958
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Issues: #63 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: 01/28/1958
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 January 1958. 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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Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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The Melting Pot!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sam Barlow
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #9 published January 1964
as The Melting Pot! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #189 published January 1982
as The Melting Pot! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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He Never Came Out!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Joe Morse; Pete Atkins; Mr. Cartel
Synopsis: A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-424
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
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Uncork It... If You Dare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Harold Simpson; Flora Simpson
Synopsis: A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-414
Disclose Notes: Possible Wessler script from Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 26, No. 4, April 2015. Inventory scripts may have later been used and retitled. This story may originally have been written as "The Nation that Forgot".
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The Drowning Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Fulsom; Hirala
Synopsis: A cafe owner comes across Atlanteans exiling some of their criminals. The guards save him from drowning and he is offered citizenship.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-367
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Flight Number Thirteen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Franz; Ivan
Synopsis: Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers. The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-445
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
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The Melting Pot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sam Barlow
Synopsis: A convict creates a melting pot to free himself from jail to steal gold, but the pot melts the gold and leaves him trapped in molten metal.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #189 published January 1982
as The Melting Pot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-440
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The Free Ride

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle
Synopsis: A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 [unnamed variant] published January 1961
as The Free Ride [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #189 published January 1982
as The Free Ride [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagWorld of Suspense #3 published August 1956
was Rocket Time [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-91
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations. Original title: "Rocket Time."
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Too Good to Be True!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Danny; Uncle George
Synopsis: A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-439

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