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Issue: Strange Tales #89
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #89 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: 07/11/1961
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 July 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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reprinted 4 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted 10 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagHulk vs. Fin Fang Foom #1 published February 2008 as Fin Fang Foom [Character Profile on Interior Page(s)] cover
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Fin Fang Foom!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 #1 published December 2005
In Issue: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby #2 published March 2006
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1966
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #21 [unnamed variant] published May 1973
as Fin Fang Foom! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Monsters #[nn] published January 2006
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Fin Fang Foom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow
Synopsis: A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its lair before restoring its mystical slumber.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 #1 published December 2005
In Issue: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby #2 published March 2006
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1966
as Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #21 [unnamed variant] published May 1973
as Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAstonishing Tales #23 published April 1974
as Conquerors Three! [Story on Interior Page(s)]parts of four pages only
In Content Item: FlagCrazy Magazine #73 published April 1981
as Fin Fang Foom [Story on Interior Page(s)]art only, new dialogue
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Monsters #[nn] published January 2006
as Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHulk vs. Fin Fang Foom #1 published February 2008
as Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-318
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: part one (6 pp) and part two (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).

While colored green on the cover, Fin Fang Foom is colored orange in the interior art.

Fin Fang Foom next appears in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (April 1974).
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The Future

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ted Jason
Synopsis: A quiz show host finds himself mysteriously transported to the far future for a brief time.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystical Tales #3 published October 1956
was The Future [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-318
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Green Things!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Martin Kastle
Synopsis: A wealthy retiree keeps a magnificent greenhouse, where he talks to the plants. When a burglar tries to kill him, his plants come to life and stop the intruder, saving their friend's life.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-320
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Touch of Midas!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Simon Kluge
First Line: Gold! Gold! Everything I touch turns to gold! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Synopsis: A greedy man locates the source of Midas’s power, planning to stop the undesirable effects with gloves. He gains the power but finds that his gloves turn to gold, dooming him to the same fate as Midas.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-319
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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