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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 85
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: June 1961
Volume: 1

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Strange Tales 85
Owner: bomber-bob

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STRANGE TALES #85
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: The Return of Gargantus! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Gargantus (sea monster)


Story Title: The Return of Gargantus! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Gargantus (sea monster); Bill; Anne; Frank
Synopsis:Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world. The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him.


Story Title: New Glasses - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters: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.


Story Title: The Man Who Fell! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Hans; Katrina; Albert
Synopsis:A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes that a chandelier above him is coming loose.


Story Title: The Ape Man - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Salty Gruner; Ape Man
Synopsis:A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit. Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place.


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