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Issue: Marvel Tales #5
Publication Date: November 1966
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Issues: #5 of 289 Issues (563 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Non-Pareil Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 08/09/1966
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#3-33 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From11
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Thor; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Zemu
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby] published April 2007
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Mighty Thor Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published November 2010
as Marvel Tales Annual #1, Marvel Tales #3-27, and Special Marvel Edition #1-2 Cover Reprints [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Poder y Responsabilidad #[nn] published April 2014
as El Enigma Arácnido [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #103 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1962
was Prisoner of the 5th Dimension! [Illustration on Cover, Front].25 page size; partially obscured
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #87 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1962
was Prisoner of the Reds! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1/6 page
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #40 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1963
was The Day the Ant-Man Failed! [Illustration on Cover, Front]partially obscured
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1964
was Spider-Man Tackles the Human Torch [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover featuring scenes from interior stories with graytones and touch-ups by Marie Severin.
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The Terrible Threat of the Living Brain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1964
was The Terrible Threat of the Living Brain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
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Prisoner of the 5th Dimension!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; George Bentley (real estate developer); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo)
Synopsis: Perfectly good houses sink into the ground after they're built. Reed suggests sabotage; a farmer blames "swamp demons." When Johnny investigates, he sees strange men with blue skin using an "electro gamma wave" ray gun to make the houses sink. The farmer, confronted, proves to be one of them as well, and he uses an "anti-matter electron" gun to make Johnny's flame go out!
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #103 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1962
was Prisoner of the 5th Dimension! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-823
Disclose Notes: Story in 3 parts:: Part 1 (5 pp.), Part 2 Trapped in Another World! (5 pp.) & Part 3 The End of Zemu! (3 pp.).
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Part 2: Trapped in Another World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Zemu (despot) (Intro); Valeria (Intro); Phineas (Intro); Theos (Intro)
Synopsis: Johnny is transported to another dimension, where, in a futuristic city, he's taken before Zemu, a despot who plans to conquer Earth, and had been trying to drive away the real estate developers from the dimensional passageway. Imprisoned in a water tank, Johnny is freed by Valeria, whose father Phineas wishes to overthrow the tyrant. Zemu's troops attack, threatening to kill the others if Johnny doesn't surrender. But he frees his new friends...
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #103 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1962
was Prisoner of the 5th Dimension! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-823
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of 3. 1st appearances of Zemu, Valeria, Phineas & Theos.
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Part 3: The End of Zemu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Zemu; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Valeria; Phineas; Theos; Mr. Harris (teacher)
Synopsis: Johnny uses his flames to create a tornado to take out the asbestos-covered armored tanks, then writes a message in the sky to inspire an uprising! Zemu is quickly overthrown, the people can now live free, and Valeria wishes Johnny could stay. Back in school, Johnny daydreams about her, thinking "I'll never be able to get her out of my mind..." (Ah, so young!)
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #103 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1962
was Prisoner of the 5th Dimension! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: V-823
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of 3. Zemu, Valeria & Phineas would return in Fantastic Four #158 (May 1975).
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Prisoner of the Reds!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor; Jane Foster; Don Blake; Colonel Edward Harrison
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #87 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1962
was Prisoner of the Reds! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: V-947
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Somewhere Waits a Wobbow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
Character(s): The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Rack Morgan
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #51 published January 1964
was Somewhere Waits a Wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-502
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The Day That Ant-Man Failed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #40 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1963
was The Day That Ant-Man Failed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11

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