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Issue: Strange Tales #5
Publication Date: August 1987
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Issues: #5 of 19 Issues (35 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Return of The New Defenders + Cloak & Dagger vs. The Rodent

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
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Pages: 1
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Vermin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Filthy rats!
Synopsis: Vermin, a man mutated into rat-like form by an enhanced pesticide, seeks revenge on New York for killing rats. Ordering his Super-Rats to capture children, Vermin imprisons them in the sewers so that, if the humans try to use pesticides again, the children will die. Nightmare plots to use Cloak to kill Dr. Strange. Cloak and Dagger defeat Vermin.
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Pages: 11
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The Snows of Yesteryear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Old Jigme (death); Lt. Bhattacharya
First Line: The wind is cold and sparsely sown with snow as it descends from the fathers of mountains, the Himalayas.
Synopsis: Travelling through the Himalayas, Dr. Strange begrudgingly allows Valkyrie to take the soul of Jigme, his guide, who has been injured in an avalanche. Rintrah and Strange arrive at the Lamasery of the Ancient Ones.
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In Issue: FlagDoctor Strange: Strange Tales #[nn] published January 2011
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Pages: 11
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jim Shooter
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In-House column, includes a ProFile on Jim Shooter and checklist of issues on sale.

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