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Issue: Strange Tales #113

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Publication Date: October 1963

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Issues: #113 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: 07/09/1963

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Inside front cover indicia incorrectly lists issue as #112, September - accidentally unchanged from previous issue.

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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 #113 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #113 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers]

First Line: Even the flaming Human Torch is helpless before the super-natural power of the Plantman!

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Pages: 1

The Coming of the Plantman!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers] (introduction, origin); Doris Evans (introduction); Mr. Evans (introduction)

Synopsis: The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: [X-398 ?]

Notes: Plantman's costume resembles that worn by The Shadow; he next appears, in a new costume, in issue #121 (June 1964). Doris Evans would continue as Johnny's semi-reluctant girlfriend until the end of his solo series.

New Glasses

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Herbert; Mr. Blooper

Synopsis: A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-368

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Search for Shanng!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Shanng

Synopsis: An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-399

The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook

Synopsis: A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: [X-400 ?]