Strange Tales #90 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Strange Tales #90

Jack Kirby cover. Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, and Dick Ayers art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Orrgo, the Unconquerable!

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: George Klein

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Orrgo... The Unconquerable!

Characters: Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo

Synopsis: An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Notes: Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001). Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Title: Special Sale

Characters: Marvin Kale; Paula Kale

Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely

Inks: Joe Maneely

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: A Thousand Years Later...

Characters: Adam; Eve

Synopsis: A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #8 (December 1970)

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (December 1958). Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: The Inhuman!

Characters: X-35

Synopsis: In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: Germ Warfare

Characters: John Marshall; Molitis germ

Synopsis: A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966)

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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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	0	0	0	0	3	2	6	5	9	9	6	10	5	10	12	10	4	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	104
Qualified	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
Signature Series	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
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	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	7	5	9	9	6	10	5	10	12	10	4	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	105

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