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Issue: Strange Tales #154
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/06/1966
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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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Clea Must Die!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
occult
Dr. Strange; Veritas
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Miscellaneous
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Marie Severin has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew.
Beware... the Deadly Dreadnought!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
espionage
Dum Dum Dugan; Nick Fury; Laura Brown; Gabe Jones; Supreme Hydra ["Agent Bronson" (alias)]; Jasper Sitwell; HYDRA; Boothroyd (Personal Effects Dept.); The Dreadnought (HYDRA Robot)
While the AUTOFAC computer works out the true identity of the Supreme Hydra, Fury plans to have Bronson transport Laura to SHIELD's West coast HQ. In the Personal Effects Dept. Fury is given a new weapons-laden outfit. Moments later he's attacked by The Dreadnought, a deadly 8-foot-tall HYDRA killer robot. Laura suspects Bronson may be the Supreme Hydra himself, and her suspicions are confirmed by AUTOFAC, but before she can pass on the info, Bronson overpowers her. Fury just barely manages to beat The Dreadnought, but finds Laura is missing-- and AUTOFAC names her as the Supreme Hydra!
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Miscellaneous
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Part 5 of 9. Fury's "Repulsor Watch," capable of deflecting bullets, later turned up in the film LIVE AND LET DIE (1973), though in the movie, it was only used to attract metal, not deflect it. SHIELD would build their own "Dreadnought," a tunneling machine, which would turn up in STRANGE TALES #167 (April 1968). HYDRA's "Dreadnought" would turn up again in DAREDEVIL #121 (May 1975).
Nutty Notes and Nonsensical Name-Dropping, Featuring Naturally Non-Essential News of the Nation's Top Non-Entities!

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Nick Fury
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Miscellaneous
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Items; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; list of 26 M.M.M.S. members
More Marvel Masterpieces...

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Subject Matter
superhero
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics; Amazing Spider-Man; Marvel Tales
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House ad for Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #7 (February 1967); Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #46 (March 1967); and Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (March 1967), with covers shown, and all advertised as "Now On Sale!".
Clea Must Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
occult
The Mindless Ones; Dr. Strange; Umar; Veritas (Embodiment of Truth Incarnate); Clea (image only)
Thru trickery Strange manages to escape The Mindless One. Using the Eye of Agamotto, he spies on Umar in her castle, as she plots to grind each dimension in turn under her heel. Seeking to free the prisoners in Umar's dungeon, Strange encounters Veritas, the "Embodiment of Truth Incarnate", and takes him to the castle past as swarm of flying demons. Umar is shocked and cannot bear the sight of herself as she really is (thanks to Veritas), but as Strange confronts her, she sends forth a mystic bolt of death-- toward Clea!
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Part 8 of 22; part 4 of Umar sequence. The flying demons around Umar's castle are strikingly similar to those seen in the 1968 SPIDER-MAN cartoon, "The Evil Sorcerer". Cover story.
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Dear Stan, Allow me to be the first...
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Letters of comment from Bruce Long; Kenneth Sneyd; Karen Bower; and Bill Homah.

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