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Issue: Strange Tales #69
Publication Date: June 1959
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Issues: #69 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in February 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered.

Some information on this issue supplied by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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 In6
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Man in the Iron Box!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Phineas Stokes
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Man In The Iron Box!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Phineas Stokes
Synopsis: Certain that the world will soon descend into nuclear war, a brilliant scientist goes into cryogenic suspension for a million years, hoping to awaken in a more enlightened time. Instead the world quickly retreats from war and advances rapidly. By the time he awakens, most humans have left Earth, and the few remaining are being rounded up to serve as conscripted soldiers in an alien war.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-230
Disclose Notes: This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (January 1961) as "I Lived a Million Years!" drawn by Paul Reinman, and in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #96 (September 1963) as "Frederick Fenton's Future!" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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The Talent

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Harry; Bobby; Oswald
Synopsis: A tramp comes to a farmhouse asking for a hot meal in exchange for chopping wood and impresses the family with his talking dog.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #3 published April 1956
was The Talent [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-992
Disclose Notes: The first page of this story is printed between "The Man in the Iron Box!" and "Rocket Ship X-200", while the second page is printed between "The World That Was Lost!" and "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Rocket Ship X-200

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Brewster
Synopsis: An aging space pilot is mocked for his slow ship, but when an invading armada approaches Earth his ship is the first to see it. His warning allows Earth to beat back the invasion, making him a hero and the commander of a new space patrol.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #5 published November 1971
as Rocket Ship X-200 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-227
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Journey into Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Johnson; Thomas Blake
Synopsis: Two scientists try to travel to the future, but arrive in the stone age. They believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagForbidden Worlds #2 published ?
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as Journey Into Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-225
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) as "I Dared to Look Beyond!" drawn by Steve Ditko. Story is pages 14-16, 18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 3, last page not numbered).
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The World That Was Lost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Captain Jordan; Linus Vermeer
Synopsis: An old eccentric in a wheelchair hires a sea captain to take him to a spot where he believes that the lost continent of Atlantis lies. When they reach their destination he reveals himself to be a merman and thanks the sailors for bringing him home before diving overboard.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagForbidden Worlds #2 published ?
In Content Item: FlagTower of Shadows #9 published January 1971
as The World That Was Lost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-226
Disclose Notes: Possible Wessler script from information in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 26, No.4, April 2015. Wessler inventory included a story originally titled "Lost...One World."

Narrated in the first person by Captain Jordan. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: This shares the last page of "The Talent" (page 26 of comic). Average sales not printed.
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The Threat from the 5th Dimension!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): 'Dr. Allen Brown' [actually a 5th dimensional invader] (only appearance for both)
Synopsis: The 5th dimension is the dream dimension. The creatures there are trying to pass into this dimension, but belief in their existence as opposed to surmising a mere dream experience disrupts the structure of the dream dimension and forces the creatures to withdraw from our world. The narrator sells his story to Strange Tales to encourage readers to believe in the creatures and frustrate their invasion aspirations.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTower of Shadows #9 published January 1971
as The Threat from the 5th Dimension! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-222
Disclose Notes: This story is narrated in the first person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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