Strange Tales #158 (Marvel, 1967) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $4,080.00
Sold: Apr 14, 2019
Strange Tales #158 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1967
About Strange Tales #158
Featuring Doctor Strange and Nick Fury. The first full appearance of the Living Tribunal. Marie Severin cover and art. Jim Steranko story and art. Herb Trimpe art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Living Tribunal; Dr. Strange
Pencils: Marie Severin
Inks: Herb Trimpe ?
Colors: Marie Severin ?
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: Possible Severin colors per Nick Caputo, who notes that Marie has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew. Previous indexer credited Stan Goldberg. Possible Trimpe inks per Nick Caputo. previous indexer credited Bill Everett or Marie Severin.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Supreme Hydra [Baron Strucker]; Nick Fury; HYDRA; Laura Brown
Synopsis: The battle between Fury & Strucker rages until Fury manages to remove his Satan glove. Minutes later, as HYDRA thugs enter the room, they discover 2 Strucker's! One of them is revealed to be wearing a mask, panics, and is incinerated in an Alpha-Particle Reactor Cube. The other orders Laura put aboard the Dyna-Soar and takes off from Hydra Island, despite the imminent detonation of The Death Spore bomb. Fury had used Strucker's device to disguise himself and Strucker. It detonates, and thanks to the impenetrable dome, only Hydra Island and all within are wiped off the face of the Earth!
Pages: 12.000
Script: Jim Steranko
Pencils: Jim Steranko
Inks: Jim Steranko
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: Part 9 of 9. Although HYDRA's leader and main base were destroyed, their branch organization, A.I.M., resurfaced the following month against Captain America in TALES OF SUSPENSE #92 (August 1967). HYDRA returned in CAPTAIN AMERICA #110 (February 1969). Baron Strucker reappeared without explanation in the guise of "The Hood" in CAPTAIN AMERICA #131 (November 1970); later revealed to be a robot in CAPTAIN AMERICA #247 (July 1980). Baron Strucker remained dead for 24 years, until he was brought back to life in NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. #20 (February 1991). HYDRA's formation by Baron Strucker was explained in flashback in CAPTAIN SAVAGE #2-4 (March-July 1968). In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 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 |
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Universal |
1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 28 | 47 | 66 | 70 | 89 | 96 | 96 | 103 | 105 | 90 | 77 | 31 | 45 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1028 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 32 | 50 | 74 | 81 | 96 | 108 | 108 | 111 | 119 | 101 | 86 | 40 | 46 | 29 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1143 |
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