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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 (156)
Publication Date: April 2011
 
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On Sale Date: 04/06/2011
Volume: 4
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780785150152
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Price: $59.99 USD
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68 (54 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Reprints Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 Series) #31-39. Volume 156 in the Marvel Masterworks Library.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 7.5 in. x 10.25 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Credits/Contests

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The History of Atlas Horror/Fantasy: Pre- and Post-Code 1954-1955

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Strange Tales #31

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The Man Who Played With Blocks!

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Herman Pringle; Mr. Browder; Mary
A toy maker gets a hold of wood leftovers from coffin construction and builds toy blocks from them. Like a voodoo figurine, whatever is built from the blocks is destroyed when the blocks are scattered.
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The Living Legend

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Robert Weirton; Vance Thane
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The Bum!

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A bum involved in a train wreck regrets when he takes the clothes off a prosperous man and leaves him to die, only to be arrested by the police and learns that they have mistaken him for a different bum that committed murder earlier and stole the victim's clothes.
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The Money Tree!

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Professor Wilson; Filmore; Ace Horton
A professor is killed by a gangster who funded his money tree project when the tree only produces three dollar bills.
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The First Man

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Jackson Cole; Narim; Abena
A mountain climber wants to be the first man atop Mount Ka, and he succeeds, but he finds that still he has been preceded to the summit...by a werewolf.
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The Strange Ones!

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Falten
Scientists search for a mutant to tame their atomic pile but he has undergone a procedure that makes him normal.
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Strange Tales #32

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Man or Beast?

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Joel Dennis; Marion; Herme Slovak
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The Ticket

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Tom Feeley
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The Dreadful Disguise

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Nick Jacapo
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Harley's Friends

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Harley
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The Wrong Man

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Marcy; Charles Johnson; Largo
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The Horrible Years!

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Harry; Molly
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Strange Tales #33

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A Giant There Was!

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Stephen; Kevin; Carl
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The Haunted Man

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Joseph Wintergreen; Dennis Strange
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The Schemers!

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Paul; Edgar; Della
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Step Lively, Please

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Hans Dorfman; Kurt
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The Spy!

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Igor; Jan
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What Is It?

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Lonzo Peer; Jamison
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Strange Tales #34

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Flesh and Blood

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Foster Hale; Marge; Prescott Saunders
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Boomerang!

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Ben Moorehead; Mr. Harvey; Olaf Reimann
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Moment of Glory

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Sammy Glenn; Ben Graham
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The Last Barrier

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Otto Brown
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The Strange Room

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Jim Howard; Helen Howard
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Family Tree!

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Karl Schultz
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Strange Tales #35

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Danger Signal!

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Peter; Janet
A boy playing with toy trains saves his train engineer father when he leaves a warning light on a train rail that hasn't been switched due to the signalman's suffering a heart attack and the warning light appears in real life.
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My Friend Koogelie

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Danny Wilcox; Mrs. Wilcox; Mr. Wilcox; Doctor Trimbauer; Googelie
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The Man in the Bottle!

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Adam Halley
A man gets suckered into releasing a tiny prisoner in a bottle due to promises of wealth only to find that he must take the prisoner's place.
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The Target!

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Randy; Hoyt; Marla; Doctor Karns; Professor Bends
A young boy has his interest in space travel discouraged by his parents since they do not want him to return to Earth.
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The Character

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Merlin
Merlin takes a tour of modern day London and is disappointed when the natives fail to show the appropriate respect.
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Freddie's Face

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Freddie; Mrs Novack; Betty
A man's ugly face begins to look handsome as he does good deeds.
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Strange Tales #36

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The Man Who Turned Off the Sun!

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Henry Farnol; Martha Farnol
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Music in the Air

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Who let the air out of your tires?
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Speak!

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Emory Hastings; Mrs. Biggs
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The Discovery

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Mike Sloane; Ernie Watkins; Jim Handley
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The Bell That Wouldn't Stop

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The Secret Weapon

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Mason; Newton; Reilly; Dillon
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Strange Tales #37

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A Stroke of the Pen

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Everett Corliss; Benton
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The Richest Man in the World

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Jim Holden
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Too Many Robots

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Steve; Charley Brown; Henry Stone
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The Hero

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Johnny; Bob
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Out of the Storm

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John Oogluma; Chester Martin; Tommy Martin
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Don't Think So Loud

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Mark Dawes
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The Man in the Sky

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A "Jack and the Beanstalk" story with a moral against being too greedy.
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From Outer Space

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Jonathan Ditmar
When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
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The Shaggy Creature!

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Bradley Brenton
People wonder why a wealthy man carries around a teddy bear with him wherever he goes not realizing that the bear is his financial adviser.
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No Escape!

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Harry; Gloria
A married couple going through some rocky times are watching television with each other when they see a show called 'Supposing' featuring actors who look like them. Through various scenarios the two realize fate brought them together and resolve to stop sniping at each other. They are shocked when they glance behind the set and realize that the TV is not plugged in.
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Time Crime

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A man invents a time machine in order to commit crimes but he runs afoul of the 'Time Adjusters' who correct flaws in the time stream.
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The Boy Who Saw!

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Tad Wilson
Three men receive warnings from an angelic boy who charges a penny to read their futures. When the dire predictions come true, the men return to boy for more advice only to learn that the boy's mother has made him give up his business and he walks off into the sky to return home.
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Karnoff's Plan!

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Professor Karnoff
A Puppet Master type story but his material works on buildings as well as people. He meets his doom when his landlady sells his statue of himself along with other personal items for nonpayment of rent and the buyer tosses it in the trash.
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Music Master

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Joe; Gus; Angelo
A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
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Blind Spot!

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A homely alien is going to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace when he saves a blind girl from being struck by a car. After she tells him she can sense his inner nobility he changes his recommendation to allow humans to develop their space-faring capability.
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The Secret of the Ship

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Peter Grant
A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The family needs extra money because the father is home recovering from an illness. The boy thinks his ship has become lost, but after awhile it returns loaded with black pearls it has traded for at a distant port.
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The Man Mountain!

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Mammoth
A story that explains the circumstances of the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do came to live in a shoe.
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Five Who Volunteered

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Burt Lloyd; Edmund Carter; Fred Burgess; Laura Beatty; George Reynolds; Morton; Edith Rogers
A TV producer of a candid-camera type show contacts an inventor who doesn't believe his rocket can fly to Venus. The producer says that's OK because he wants to advertise for five people who wish to leave Earth and film them being fooled by the fraud for the audience's amusement. The inventor agrees and is surprised when his rocket actually does succeed in reaching Venus, but not nearly as surprised as the producer and his film crew when the five recruits shape-shift into Venusians who are glad to be home.
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