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Issue: Strange Tales #88
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #88 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1961
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 June 1961. 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 In6
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Zzutak!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Zzutak
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints. The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending the threat.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as Zzutak: The Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #3 published February 1994
as Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #1086 published ?
as Der Rache-Dämon der Azteken [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-299
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin and all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994).
This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Zzutak" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
Steve Ditko writer credit removed based on information from the Atlas/Timely list.
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Snowstorm

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): Dawson; Mr. Manfredy
Synopsis: A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #47 published September 1956
was Snowstorm [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-866
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Lifeless Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Joey Clark
Synopsis: A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as The Lifeless Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-301
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Punishment!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Urru
First Line: In a far distant galaxy there spins a small planet known as Phato III!
Synopsis: An advanced civilization sends a mugger to a prison planet. Only a few moments on this world full of war, crime and disease make him go straight in order to avoid ever again coming back to Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #7 published February 1967
as Punishment! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-300
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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