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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 159
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: August 1967
Volume: 1

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Strange Tales #159
Owner: thunsicker

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Strange Tales #159 8/67 Marvel Comics
Owner: Element Lad

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Story Title: Featuring: The Great Captain America! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:spy
Characters:Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]


Story Title: Spy School - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:spy
Characters:Dum Dum Dugan; Jasper Sitwell; Nick Fury; Gabe Jones; Laura Brown; Yancy Street Gang (flashback cameo); Mamma Fury (flashback cameo); Jake Fury (unnamed; flashback cameo); The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro De Fontaine]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Synopsis:Fury reminisces with Laura about his days growing up in Hell's Kitchen; then at SHIELD HQ, offers her a job as an agent. Fury goes to the UNIT academy, where recruits undergo rigorous education. He meets two new agents: Sidney E. Levine, a tech expert and Val, who scoffs at his attitude that the spy game is man's work. Fury takes on Captain America in a display bout for the recruits, but gets dizzy due to a side-effect of the invisibility pill he used earlier. Cap tells him he's found out who was responsible for a job they tackled a year ago.


Story Title: Fabulous Facts and Frivolous Fables for Frantic Fans, Faithful Friends, and Fiendish Foes! - in-house column
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Nick Fury


Story Title: "The Evil That Men Do..." - comic story
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:Dr. Strange; Wong; Umar (flashback); Zom (flashback); The Living Tribunal (cameo); Baron Mordo
Synopsis:Strange returns home to find his Sanctum gone! Wong, who barely escaped its destruction, recounts how Umar used a spell of vanishment. Strange dispels her enchantment and his house returns. Using the Crystal of Agamotto he senses evil mystic powers around the world. Casting a spell he discovers a group of mystics, banded together, working to free an imprisoned mystic to lead them. Strange strikes down the most powerful of the group, but is too late, they have freed Baron Mordo, his most hated enemy, knowing it will be impossible to convince him to join forces to save the Earth!


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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