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Issue: Strange Tales #80
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #80 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/29/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in August 1960. 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:  
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Disclose Reprinted In6
Disclose Reprinted From1
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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Gargantus!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gargantus (sea monster)
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMystic #44 published January 1964
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New logo this issue, likely redesigned by Artie Simek.
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What? What? What Was Gargantus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dan; Billy; Gargantus (sea monster, introduction)
Synopsis: A deep sea explorer encounters a giant reptile that follows him back to the surface. The creature explores the surface, causing panic until it faints due to its inability to breathe air and is dumped back into the sea.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #17 published May 1972
as Gargantus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-982
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gargantus next appears in issue #85 (June 1961).
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6, last page not numbered).
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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. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Things from Dimension X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lynwood; Koaa
Synopsis: A scientist successfully creates a link to the dimension Electra only to find the inhabitants bent on conquest. They pour through the portal but are stopped when the carved presidents on Mt. Rushmore come to life and drive them back.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #5 published October 1966
as The Things from Dimension X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #17 published May 1972
as The Things from Dimension X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (first page not numbered then pages numbered 2 to 6).

Hayden suggests that the angular letters and diagonal exclamation points suggest Sam Rosen (as
opposed to his brother Joe).
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The Door They Dare Not Open!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruno Zuknik
Synopsis: A prison warden treats inmates with kindness, and relies on an honor system to prevent them from opening the one closed door. A new prisoner defies the code and opens the door, but is taken to the warden's alien world to do hard labor.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-953
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Trapped in the Room of Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Sanford Kindwell; Kroger
Synopsis: A millionaire looks for magical wishing stones with which he hopes to help all humanity. His greedy guide tries to steal the first stone, but only succeeds in using up its power and trapping himself.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #22 published April 1973
as Trapped in the Room of Shadows [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #8/1987 published January 1987
as Fange i skyggenes rom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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