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Issue: Strange Tales #82
Publication Date: March 1961
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Issues: #82 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: 10/27/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in October 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 In5
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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It

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Thing Called...It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
Synopsis: A scientist builds a creature to kill a rival, but it refuses to obey. Its creator turns the local people against it, and in trying to kill the creature, the scientist is killed and the thing’s mind is transferred to his body, freeing it to live as a man.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #4 published August 1966
as The Thing Called... It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #15 [unnamed variant] published February 1972
as The Thing Called...It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-70
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: Chapter 1: The Thing Called It! (6 pp) and Chapter 2: 'It' Lives! (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
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The Utopia

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
Synopsis: Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #53 published September 1956
was The Utopia [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-188
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The World Beyond

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A scientist creates a pill to shrink himself to subatomic size, convinced that whole other worlds exist at microscopic levels. His pill works, and he vanishes into a whole new world called Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #17 [unnamed variant] published September 1972
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #37 [unnamed variant] published September 1975
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-62
Disclose Notes: This story is a retelling of "I Shrunk Away to Nothing!", also drawn by Ditko, from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #56 (January 1960).
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Fangs of the Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Darius Storme
Synopsis: A cruel hunter pursues a sea monster for sport, but finds himself at its mercy. The creature is intelligent and telepathically berates the hunter, leaving him alive to suffer the punishment of never finding anyone who will believe his story.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #37 [unnamed variant] published September 1975
as Fangs of the Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-59
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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