Strange Tales #162 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1967

About Strange Tales #162

Yellow Claw and Captain America appearances. Dan Adkins cover. Art by Jim Steranko (S.H.I.E.L.D. story) and Adkins (Doctor Strange story).

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COVER DETAILS

Title: From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos!

Characters: Dr. Strange; Nebulos

Pencils: Dan Adkins

Inks: Dan Adkins

Letters: Sam Rosen

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: So Evil, The Night!

Characters: The Gaff [Sidney E. Levine, Gaffer]; Nick Fury; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine]; Jimmy Woo; The Yellow Claw (Fang-Chu); Fritz Von Voltzmann

Synopsis: The Gaff presents Fury with his new car which is made entirely out of clear fiberglass, making it completely invisible from 100 feet away! Fury & Val go to SHIELD's rebuilt ESP Division. There, Jimmy Woo detects that The Yellow Claw is in Chinatown. Nick tells Woo it's his job now, and goes there alone. After a harrowing encounter with a pair of Claw goons, Fury impersonates one of them, and in a darkened shop, meets Fang-Chu (The Claw) face-to-face. But Voltzmann gets the drop on him, and an instant later, he falls thru a trapdoor into the tentacles of a giant octopus!

Pages: 12.000

Script: Jim Steranko

Pencils: Jim Steranko

Inks: Frank Giacoia; Jim Steranko (see notes)

Letters: Sam Rosen

Notes: Part 4 of 9. 2nd appearance of The Gaff & Val. 1st appearance of Fury's new car, and the new ESP Division, replacing those destroyed in STRANGE TALES #153 (March 1967) and the flashback in #160 (September 1967). The Claw having Fury fight a giant octopus pays tribute to the Ian Fleming James Bond 007 novel, DR. NO (1958). James Bond finally got a car capable of invisibility in the film DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002). Nick Caputo believes the splash page was inked by Steranko. 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.

Title: From the Never-World Comes... Nebulos!

Characters: Nebulos; Dr. Strange; Victoria Bentley; Baron Mordo

Synopsis: Nebulos commands Strange to take hold of his Staff of Polar Power which places Strange under his control. He returns Strange to Earth to face Mordo, whose power is absorbed by the staff. Strange's spell sends Mordo into cosmic limbo. Returning to Stonehenge where the mystic hourglass remains Strange attempts to remove it from earth but both are pulled back to the Planets Perilous by Nebulos, whose staff returns to him. Nebulos says Victoria was his hostage to ensure Strange's return and the staff could have saved them both. At that moment Strange sees the approach of The Living Tribunal.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Jim Lawrence; Dan Adkins (co-plot)

Pencils: Dan Adkins

Inks: Dan Adkins

Letters: Sam Rosen

Notes: Part 16 of 22; part 5 of the Living Tribunal sequence. Several panels based closely on Steve Ditko panels; the effect resembles Ditko pencils plus Wood inks. 1st 2-page spread in a Dr. Strange story! The image of Nebulos on the splash page is swiped from the John Schoenherr cover painting to the 1962 Pyramid Books edition of Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon.

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Marie Severin; Jim Steranko (illustrations)

Inks: Herb Trimpe; Jim Steranko (illustrations)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Letters of comment from Don Markstein; Jay Zaremba; and Martin Frutin. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.

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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
Universal	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	3	12	5	7	12	12	18	19	15	32	29	31	37	14	5	0	0	256
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	4	2	2	5	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	26
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	5	12	9	9	14	19	19	23	16	34	30	33	39	15	5	0	0	288

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