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Issue: Strange Tales #162
Publication Date: November 1967
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Issues: #162 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/01/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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 In13
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Interior Page
Original Artwork
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From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dr. Strange; Nebulos
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
In Issue: FlagAgente Internacional #28 published ?
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as Strange Tales #162 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2009
as From The Nether-World Comes Nebulos! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagS.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] published October 2013
as From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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So Evil, The Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine, Gaffer]; Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine]; Jimmy Woo; The Yellow Claw (Fang-Chu); Fritz Von Voltzmann
Synopsis: The Gaff presents Fury with his new car which is made entirely out of clear fiberglass, making it completely invisible from 100 feet away! Fury & Val go to SHIELD's rebuilt ESP Division. There, Jimmy Woo detects that The Yellow Claw is in Chinatown. Nick tells Woo it's his job now, and goes there alone. After a harrowing encounter with a pair of Claw goons, Fury impersonates one of them, and in a darkened shop, meets Fang-Chu (The Claw) face-to-face. But Voltzmann gets the drop on him, and an instant later, he falls thru a trapdoor into the tentacles of a giant octopus!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagNick Fury - Agent för SHIELD #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Britain #7 published November 1976
as So Evil, the Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1-7; pp. 1-7
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Britain #8 published December 1976
as A Fury In the Midst of the Claw! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pp. 8-12 plus new splash, not by Steranko
In Content Item: FlagNick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] [First Printing] published May 2000
as So Evil, the Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2009
as So Evil, The Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagS.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko: The Complete Collection #[nn] published October 2013
as So Evil, The Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Part 4 of 9.

2nd appearance of The Gaff & Val. 1st appearance of Fury's new car, and the new ESP Division, replacing those destroyed in STRANGE TALES #153 (March 1967) and the flashback in #160 (September 1967).

The Claw having Fury fight a giant octopus pays tribute to the Ian Fleming James Bond 007 novel, DR. NO (1958). James Bond finally got a car capable of invisibility in the film DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002).

Suspicions the splash page was inked by Steranko. In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales #165.
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Marvel Madness!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items; Stan's Soapbox!; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
Character(s): Nebulos; Dr. Strange; Victoria Bentley; Baron Mordo
Synopsis: Nebulos commands Strange to take hold of his Staff of Polar Power which places Strange under his control. He returns Strange to Earth to face Mordo, whose power is absorbed by the staff. Strange's spell sends Mordo into cosmic limbo. Returning to Stonehenge where the mystic hourglass remains Strange attempts to remove it from earth but both are pulled back to the Planets Perilous by Nebulos, whose staff returns to him. Nebulos says Victoria was his hostage to ensure Strange's return and the staff could have saved them both. At that moment Strange sees the approach of The Living Tribunal.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Part 16 of 22; part 5 of the Living Tribunal sequence. Several panels based closely on Steve Ditko panels; the effect resembles Ditko pencils plus Wood inks. 1st 2-page spread in a Dr. Strange story! The image of Nebulos on the splash page is swiped from the John Schoenherr cover painting to the 1962 Pyramid Books edition of Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Dear Stan, On page 7 of Strange Tales #157...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Don Markstein; Jay Zaremba; and Martin Frutin. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.

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