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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 106
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March 1963
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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Strange Tales 106
Owner: entalmighty

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Story Title: The Threat of the Torrid Twosome! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]


Story Title: The Threat of the Torrid Twosome - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante] (introduction); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Miracle Man [Joshua Ayers] (flashback); Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie] (flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom] (flashback)
Synopsis:The Acrobat tricks the Human Torch into helping him rob a bank before double crossing him. The Torch chases and captures the thief with the help of the Fantastic Four.


Story Title: The Recipe - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Josie
Synopsis:A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.


Story Title: Man on the Scaffold! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Willie Wopper; Sam; Charlie
Synopsis:A teller of tall tales becomes the butt of some ribbing when he tries to tell his fellow painters that he has acquired some magic paints. When the cable of the scaffold they are working on breaks, the advertising poster the men were painting in comes to life and lowers them to the ground. The amazed painters feel they owe their lives to the magic paint, but the painter is smug in the knowledge that the scaffold never really fell but his paint allowed him to hypnotize his coworkers into believing it did and that they were saved by the poster.


Story Title: The Mystery of the Purple Planet! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Bentley
Synopsis:A space expedition is sent to a distant planet when it is suddenly covered with an artificial mist. The team finds gold and takes it, but are transformed into aliens like the inhabitants.


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