Strange Tales #112 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1963

About Strange Tales #112

First appearance of the Eel. Fantastic Four appearance. Jack Kirby cover. Steve Ditko and Dick Ayers art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Living Bomb!

Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke]

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby ?; Dick Ayers ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Possible Kirby inks per Nick Caputo based on an examination at his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/09/kirby-inking-kirby.html. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: The Living Bomb!

Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke] (introduction, origin); Ted Braddock (TV commentator); Charles Lawson; Moxie Gahagan; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Wizard (cameo)

Synopsis: A TV host starts a public campaign against the Human Torch. The Torch’s efforts to regain his popularity fail, but when he stops the high tech thief the Eel from detonating a powerful bomb he is redeemed.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Jerry Siegel [as Joe Carter] (script)

Pencils: Dick Ayers

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Sam Rosen

Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #15 (July 1968)

Notes: The Eel next appears in issue #117 (February 1964). The Eel, with his blueish-purple costume and oily-slick coating may have inspired the villain on the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick". Charles Lawson, an atomic scientist, may have been related to Walter Lawson, an expert in guided missiles, who died in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #13 (March 1968). The plot about a miniature atomic pile which eventually explodes is similar to the Mike Hammer film, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955).

Title: The Man Who Dared!

Characters: Karl King; Tibo

Synopsis: A gem merchant hears of the world's largest ruby guarded by a legendary giant statue in Tibet. He travels to Tibet and steals the ruby, but his escape is cut off by a boulder as he drives his jeep down the mountain pass and he is startled to see the giant statue is alive and pursuing him.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Ray Holloway

Title: I Saw the Impossible World!

Characters: Tom Bronson

Synopsis: A deserter from the Space Corps of the future finds a replica of his home town and friends on an alien world. A stranger reveals that they are illusions created from the imagination of those who visit this planet and that they disappear. The man is horrified to find that he too is only a figment of the stranger's imagination.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils: Larry Lieber

Inks: Paul Reinman

Letters: Artie Simek

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	3	5	9	19	14	16	24	19	16	18	20	25	12	15	13	5	3	0	0	0	241
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	4	6	9	21	14	21	25	20	16	18	21	26	12	16	13	5	3	0	0	0	256

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