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Issue: Strange Tales #91
Publication Date: December 1961
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Issues: #91 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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in August or September 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.
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 In6
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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The Sacrifice!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck Dawson
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMystic #33 published January 1963
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Sacrifice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck Dawson; Plant Creature
Synopsis: An astronaut sent to Mars encounters a telepathic plant that destroyed all life on Mars and forces him to take it to Earth. The man kills himself by blowing up the spaceship and stranding the plant in space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #18 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1972
as The Sacrifice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagClimax Adventure Comic #14 published April 1974
as The Sacrifice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-381
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
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Strange Mission

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #45 published September 1956
was Strange Mission [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-440
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Coming of the Giants

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bobby Grant; Sally Grant
Synopsis: Alien giants menace New York, but retreat at token resistance. The people find a projector and decide that the aliens' giant size was an illusion. The aliens really were giants and left the equipment to disguise their cowardice.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #143 published January 1975
as The Coming of the Giants [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-382
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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The Mask of Morgumm!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe Phelps
Synopsis: A baby-faced criminal gets an ugly mask to disguise himself and intimidate people. When he removes the mask he finds that it has made his face just as ugly as the mask and so easily recognizable.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #18 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1972
as The Mask of Morgumm! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-383
Disclose Notes: This story is a retelling of "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?" drawn by Dick Ayers, from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959). Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Warning!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man frantically tries to convince people in a park that he saw a statue move. When he is unsuccessful he is satisfied, since now he knows that his alien people's plan to infiltrate Earth with soldiers disguised as statues will work.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #143 published January 1975
as The Warning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-384
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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