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Issue: Strange Tales #84
Publication Date: May 1961
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Issues: #84 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in February 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered.

Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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 In4
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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This is...Magneto!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Magneto [Hunk Larken]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #24 published August 1973
as This Is...Magnetor! [Illustration on Cover, Front]as "This is...Magnetor!"; original title "This Is...Magneto!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Magneto [Hunk Larken]
Synopsis: A strong man is exploited and abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show. His size makes him the perfect pilot for an experimental space flight, on which he gains magnetic powers. He attacks society and runs amok until a rocket is created to take him into space and find somewhere where he can fit in.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #24 published August 1973
as The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-150
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Magneto!"(7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (first page not numbered then pages numbered 2 to 13).
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The Inventor

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis: A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #32 published June 1955
was The Inventor [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: F-889
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Twelve Silent Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Victor Fabius; Sylvestor Weems
Synopsis: A greedy lawyer steals a time machine in order to profit from knowledge from the future. Once there he is tried for stealing the machine and his lies are useless against the telepathic jury.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #143 published January 1975
as Twelve Silent Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-151
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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They Met on Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Two beings in grotesque space suits fight on Mars. One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both humans: one from the US, one from the USSR.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #24 published August 1973
as They Met on Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retouched into a SHIELD vs Hydra story
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-149
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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