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Issue: Strange Tales #66
Publication Date: December 1958
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Issues: #66 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: 07/25/1958
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 July 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:  
Disclose Reprinted In7
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Disclose Content Items (8 total)
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The Ghost Came C.O.D.!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Rompel
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #125 published January 1973
as The Ghost Came C.O.D.! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #208 published January 1985
as The Ghost Came C.O.D.! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #7 published ?
as The Ghost Came C.O.D.! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ghost Came C.O.D.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Eban Goad; Charles Rompel
Synopsis: A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #5 published June 2011
as The Ghost Came C.O.D. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-283
Disclose Notes: A caption box saying this story is from "the Editor's File of Classic Strange Tales", possibly indicating a reprint from an unknown source.

Letters: Kuramoto worked as a letterer, and in production, for Atlas Comics until the
implosion of 1957.
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The Replacement!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Jack Hartley; Harry Groves; Mrs. Groves
Synopsis: A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. When he boards the plane it takes off and he is surprised to see that there are no other passengers or even a pilot. He panics and tries to leave the plane. The police find his body in a field as though he had fallen from a great height. Since the criminal had taken Death's plane ticket meant for him, the dying man recovers.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #188 published January 1979
as The Replacement! [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: The Replacement!
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-350
Disclose Notes: Job number corrected from M-550.
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The Voice of Fido!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Hank Walton; Ned Walton; Fido
Synopsis: A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy. When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-313
Disclose Notes: Letters: Letterese was on staff at Atlas until 1957, doing production and lettering. The letter forms in this story (especially the broad D's) resemble his credited work from the 1960s (e.g. Inferior Five #1). This was probably a 1957 inventory story (production code M-323) like the opening story of this issue (M-283).
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It Waits under the Sea!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Felix Bradin; Harry Spahn
Synopsis: A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. He becomes trapped in a holding tank for Marineland and won't be found until the exhibit is next opened.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #188 published January 1979
as It Waits Under the Sea! [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: It Waits Under the Sea!
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-327
Disclose Notes: Letterer identification by Hayden.
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The Eerie Experiment!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ben Darrow; Howie Barnes; Phil Walker; Mark Nichols; The Friends Club [Peter Ivanov; Barney Graham; John Barr [Joe Berrie]; Henry Adamo [Herbert Franklin]; Wallace]
Synopsis: Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-288
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 31, No. 7, July 2020.
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Time Machine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #57 published March 1957
was Time Machine [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-85
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
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He Wore a Black Beard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wally Rogers; Ralph Blaine
Synopsis: A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future. The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help, but after he steals money and gives it to him, he realizes the time traveler is the future self of the inventor he lives with and the man is not going to frame himself.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #188 published January 1979
as He Wore a Black Beard [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: He Wore a Black Beard
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-416
Disclose Notes: Letters: Letterese's characteristic wide D's (compare Inferior Five #1) are in evidence.

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