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Issue: Strange Tales #86
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #86 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
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 April 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
reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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I Who Created Mechano!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mechano
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #156 published January 1977
as Mechano! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #191 published January 1983
as I Who Created Mechano! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #10 published ?
as Mechano! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Created Mechano!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mechano; Mr. Hopkins; Tommy Briggs
Synopsis: A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it. They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away, moments before the police arrive and blast Mechano to bits.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-221
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Mechano" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
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Discovery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee
Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #54 published October 1956
was Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-479
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Georgie's Globe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Georgie
Synopsis: A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world. When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a far away dead world explodes.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-220
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Johnson
Synopsis: Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict. A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-222
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. The title is a reference to the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," which comes from the story of the Trojan Horse.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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