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Issue: Strange Tales #157

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Publication Date: June 1967

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Issues: #157 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

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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)
5 (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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Strange Tales #157 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #157 [UK Cover Price]

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Crisis!

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Supreme Hydra [Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]; Laura Brown; Nick Fury

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Crisis!

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Supreme Hydra [Baron Wolfgang von Strucker]; Laura Brown; HYDRA; Jasper Sitwell; ESP Division (cameo); Gabe Jones; Dum Dum Dugan; Nick Fury

Synopsis: Strucker announces that the impregnable dome over Hydra Island will keep them safe from the "Death Spore" plague, and plans to use Fury's body as the basis for an army of HYDRA androids to "police" the world, once he's dead from the Alpha Ray beam. But Fury escapes! As SHIELD searches the Heli-Carrier for the bomb with no result, Fury, "playing it by ear", takes on one group of HYDRA thugs after another, until Strucker faces him one-on-one. Thanks to his deadly "Satan Claw", Strucker gains the upper hand, and it looks like it might be the end...!

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Pages: 12

Notes: In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165. Part 8 of 9. 1st appearance of The Satan Claw. The nine-panel fight scene on page 7, as well as the lead-in final panel from page 6 appear to be an intentional homage to the Simon and Kirby scene of Jimmy Woo fighting the Yellow Claw's microscopic soldiers in Yellow Claw (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (February 1957).

Dazzling Data, Dizzy Dispatches, and Dangerous Declarations of Rather Dubious Distinction!

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Notes: Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!

The End of the Ancient One!

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Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Zom; The Ancient One; Doctor Strange [dr. Stephen Strange]; The Living Tribunal (introduction)

Synopsis: In order to pass his powers onto his desciple, The Ancient One allows Zom to defeat him. Before Strange's eyes, his mentor is fused with one of the giant rocks at Stonehenge, but not before he utters a warning. A battle ensues, until Strange manages to rip the forelock of hair from Zom's head-- at which point, an aura of evil is unleashed, and Zom declares that all is lost. From the horizon, a booming voice is heard, and Zom is banished. Strange turns to behold the towering sight of The Living Tribunal-- who declares that because of Strange's actions, Earth must be "totally destroyed"!

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Notes: Part 11 of 22; part 2 of Zom sequence. First appearance of The Living Tribunal.

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First Line: Dear Stan, Until I got issue #154...

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Notes: Letters of comment from Kevin Karusek, and Barry Brookner. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.