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Issue: Strange Tales #96

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Publication Date: May 1962

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Issues: #96 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/03/1962

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

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

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Strange Tales #96 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (7 total)

I Dream of Doom!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Frank Atwell

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Pages: 1

I Dream of Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Frank Atwell

Synopsis: Frank Atwell can't sleep because he has nightmares in which a monster tries to catch him. His doctor sedates him and he sleeps so heavily that the monster catches him before he can wake up. He discovers his dream world is the real world, and he is its king, while the mundane world was a dream, or was it?

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-628

The Universal Gadget

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Bill Jordan

Synopsis: A mysterious salesman offers a product that can do anything, but his customer decides that his ordinary contentment is better than the risk of the unknown.

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Pages: 1.75

Job Number: H-254

The Impossible Tunnel!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Robert Saunders; Omor

Synopsis: Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe. He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-629

Beware the Future Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Elsa Peterson

Synopsis: A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state. The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-630

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: This shares the last page of "The Universal Gadget". Average circulation of each issue published October 1960–September 1961 (issues #82–92, despite monthly cover dates): 191,261.

The Clock-Maker!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect. When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him. The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-627