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Issue: Strange Tales #158

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Publication Date: July 1967

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Issues: #158 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: 04/04/1967

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: On-sale date from 1967 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 #158 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Sands of Death!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Living Tribunal; Dr. Strange

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Pages: 1

Notes: Marie Severin has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew.

Final Encounter!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Supreme Hydra [Baron Strucker]; Nick Fury; HYDRA; Laura Brown

Synopsis: The battle between Fury & Strucker rages until Fury manages to remove his Satan glove. Minutes later, as HYDRA thugs enter the room, they discover 2 Strucker's! One of them is revealed to be wearing a mask, panics, and is incinerated in an Alpha-Particle Reactor Cube. The other orders Laura put aboard the Dyna-Soar and takes off from Hydra Island, despite the imminent detonation of The Death Spore bomb. Fury had used Strucker's device to disguise himself and Strucker. It detonates, and thanks to the impenetrable dome, only Hydra Island and all within are wiped off the face of the Earth!

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Pages: 12

Notes: Part 9 of 9. Although HYDRA's leader and main base were destroyed, their branch organization, A.I.M., resurfaced the following month against Captain America in TALES OF SUSPENSE #92 (August 1967). HYDRA returned in CAPTAIN AMERICA #110 (February 1969). Baron Strucker reappeared without explanation in the guise of "The Hood" in CAPTAIN AMERICA #131 (November 1970); later revealed to be a robot in CAPTAIN AMERICA #247 (July 1980). Baron Strucker remained dead for 24 years, until he was brought back to life in NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. #20 (February 1991). HYDRA's formation by Baron Strucker was explained in flashback in CAPTAIN SAVAGE #2-4 (March-July 1968).

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.

More Mixed-Up Madness from Marvel's Mighty Masters of Mysticism, Magnificence, and Misinformation!

In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist; house ad for Not Brand Echh #1.

The Sands of Death

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): The Living Tribunal; Dr. Strange

Synopsis: The Living Tribunal decrees that because Strange has unleashed a menace to the cosmos Earth must be destroyed. Before he recites the Incantation of Oblivion he recounts events leading up to his decision, agreed upon by his 3 faces of Equity, Revenge & Necessity. Strange challenges the Tribunal to let him deal with the menace, having defeated the forces of darkness in the past. Strange is granted a reprieve for as long as it takes the Sands of Death to run out of a mystic Hourglass resting in the middle of Stonehenge. Strange departs wondering if he will be able to succeed in time.

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Notes: Part 12 of 22; part 1 of the Living Tribunal sequence.

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First Line: Dear Stan, In the past Bullpen Bulletin...

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Notes: Letters of comment from Jose Medina; Larry Good;Michael Esterson and future Marvel writer Bill Mantlo. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon, as well as 26 more MMMS members.