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Issue: Strange Tales #97
Publication Date: June 1962
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Issues: #97 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: 03/08/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1962. 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:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In11
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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When a Planet Dies!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #20 published January 1965
as When a Planet Dies! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #135 published January 1974
as When a Planet Dies! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #201 published January 1984
as When a Planet Dies! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When a Planet Dies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rackozo Roor; Johnn; Aletha
Synopsis: Humans are forced underground by the Sun’s death. An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #112 published January 1975
as When a Planet Dies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #22 published May 1977
as When a Planet Dies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]altered to include Dr. Druid
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: X-646
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art, Info per Nick Caputo: http://www.romitaman.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=21398&artistid=921

The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
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Mystery Pupil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude
Synopsis: A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #52 published October 1956
was Mystery Pupil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-382
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Madness!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Dan Cooper
Synopsis: A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman. He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #20 published January 1977
as The Madness! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
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Goodbye to Linda Brown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Linda Brown; Aunt May; Uncle Ben
Synopsis: A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. The couple are sad...but they knew their mermaid ward would one day go home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #83 [30¢ Cover Price] published September 1977
as Goodbye to Linda Brown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSpiderman: Stan Lee y Steve Ditko #2 published January 2003
as Adiós a Linda Brown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko #[nn] published January 2005
as Goodbye to Linda Brown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Poder y Responsabilidad #[nn] published April 2014
as Adiós a Linda Brown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

This story is a retelling of "The Sea Waits for Me!", drawn by Dick Ayers, from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (March 1956).

Ditko evidentially used Aunt May and Uncle Ben here, as reference for Spider-Man's folks when they appeared two months later. They are nearly identical, only slightly younger.
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Behind the Dreadful Door!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Joshua Carstairs; Derek Weems
Synopsis: A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration. It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #21 published March 1977
as Behind the Dreadful Door! [Story on Interior Page(s)]altered to include Dr. Druid
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

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