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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 108
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: May 1963
Volume: 1

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Strange Tales 108
Owner: entalmighty

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Story Title: The Painter of a Thousand Perils - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing (image); Invisible Girl (image); Mister Fantastic (image); The Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile]


Story Title: The Painter of a Thousand Perils! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile] (introduction); "Scar" Tobin; Scar's Gang [Nick; Sam; Eddie]; Mister Fantastic (image); Invisible Girl (image); Thing (image); Wizard (flashback); Zemu (flashback)
Synopsis:A counterfeiter caught by the Human Torch finds magic paints and uses them to escape from prison and strike back at the Torch. The Torch realizes what is happening and uses the magic paints to fool the Painter and defeat him.


Story Title: The Heat's On - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (illustrations)
Inks:? (illustrations)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler
Synopsis:When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.


Story Title: The Silent Giant - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Ben
Synopsis:An old hermit becomes enraged that the nearby redwood tree will outlive him, but when he dies the tree transforms its friend into an immortal redwood too.


Story Title: The Iron Warrior - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:sword and sorcery
Characters:Merlin; King Arthur; Black Knight (animated suit of armor); Sir Mogard
Synopsis:A knight of King Arthur's court resents the favor shown Merlin and so challenges him to a battle. Merlin's champion, a black knight, wins the competition. The envious knight still sneers at Merlin and claims he has no true magic powers, but Merlin makes a mystic pass and the empty suit of armor falls in pieces upon the ground.


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