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Issue: Strange Tales #87
Publication Date: August 1961
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Issues: #87 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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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 May 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 In5
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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The Return of Grogg!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Grogg
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #23 published June 1973
as The Return of Grogg! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Return of...Grogg!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Miklos Koslov; Ivan Grotsky; Grogg
Synopsis: Koslov is sent back to Russia as a spy, and discovers that the dragon Grogg is still on the loose. He lures Grogg into a Soviet rocket and launches it on its mission to Mars, knowing that if the Soviets ever travel to Mars they will find an enraged dragon.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #23 published June 1973
as The Return of... Grogg! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-237
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Grogg" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13). Grogg last appeared in issue #83 (April 1961); his next published appearance is in Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (January 2005), while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
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Peril on Paper

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): Jon Randall; Hannes Bache
Synopsis: An artist alters a matter transmitter to create images out of the human imagination, but more than just the image of the imagined monster is created.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #15 published December 1952
was Peril on Paper [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: B-213
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Lighthouse from Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A lighthouse appears by a village, but their teacher feels they shouldn’t use it unearned and destroys it. They build a new one, never knowing that the first was a beacon for an alien invasion, now aborted.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #24 published July 1973
as The Lighthouse from Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThor e i Vendicatori #145 published November 1976
as Il faro dal nulla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-239
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Macabre Mirror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Carlotta
Synopsis: A greedy duke taxes his people into poverty. When he ignores a gypsy's warnings and tries to seize her ancient mirror he finds himself imprisoned within it forever, freeing his subjects.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #23 published June 1973
as The Macabre Mirror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-238
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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