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Issue: Strange Tales #138

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Publication Date: November 1965

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Issues: #138 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)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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 #138 [U.S. Cover Price]

2 Strange Tales #138 [UK Cover Price]

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Sometimes the Good Guys Lose!

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Nick Fury; HYDRA

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Sometimes the Good Guys Lose!

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Nick Fury; Gabe Jones; Imperial Hydra (?); Agent "G" [Laura Brown] (unnamed); HYDRA; Tony Stark; Dum Dum Dugan; Leslie Farrington; Brown; Hodges; Wilson; Vincent Vandergill

Synopsis: Aboard SHIELD's Intercontinental Ballistic Plane Fury uses the Televiewer Tube to locate the Betraton Bomb launch site. It is destroyed but the bomb was already launched. Agent G unsucsessfully implores her father, Imperial Hydra to come to his senses. He sends HYDRA's Fox Division to deliver his terms to every nation on Earth. Tony Stark prepares to show Fury the Braino-Saur,a new weapon when HYDRA agents capture him. At Imperial Industries board members vie for position, hoping to stage a corporate coup. Imperial Hydra gloats over Fury, while in Washington, HYDRA delivers their ultimatum.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Part 4 of 7. The tank which crashes thru a wall and then launches a section of itself as a missile is remarkably similar to the one used by Mr. Freeze in the film BATMAN AND ROBIN (1997). The board room scene is reminiscent of the film EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954).

If Eternity Should Fail!

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Genres: occult

Character(s): Dr. Strange; Eternity; Baron Mordo; Dormammu; The Ancient One; Hamir; Clea (unnamed)

Synopsis: In another dimension that defies description, Dr. Strange comes face-to-face with Eternity, who learns that Strange is indeed worthy of The Ancient One's trust. He knows that if Mordo & Dormammu are not stopped, all mankind will be in jeopardy. But after all Strange has been thru, Eternity tells him he already has the power he needs. Feeling dejected, Strange returns to the cave to find his master gone. Mordo's spirits lead him to Mordo, who tells Strange "The game is lost!"

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Notes: Part 9 of 17.

[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Notes: Letters from Dick Wolz, Marcus Smith, David Simon, Ted Wentworth, Daryl Leace.