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Issue: Strange Tales #85
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #85 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 March 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 In3
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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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The Return of Gargantus!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gargantus (sea monster)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Return of Gargantus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gargantus (sea monster); Bill; Anne; Frank
Synopsis: Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world. The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-171
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gargantus" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).

Gargantus last appeared in issue #80 (January 1961); he next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
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New Glasses

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Herbert; Mr. Blooper
Synopsis: A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #30 published October 1956
was New Glasses [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-368
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Man Who Fell!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Hans; Katrina; Albert
Synopsis: A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes that a chandelier above him is coming loose.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #25 published November 1973
as The Man Who Fell! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-173
Disclose Notes: This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #48 (December 1963) as "Kraddak" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber.

Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Ape Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Salty Gruner; Ape Man
Synopsis: A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit. Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #24 published October 1973
as The Ape Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Werewolf #2 published October 1974
as The Ape Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-172
Disclose Notes: This story seems similar to "Gorilla Man" drawn by Robert Q. Sale in Men's Adventures (Marvel, 1950 series) #25 (March 1954).

Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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