Strange Tales #93 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1962

About Strange Tales #93

Steve Ditko cover. Ditko and Jack Kirby art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Wax People

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Pencils credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Steve Ditko.

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 (April 1973)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: When the Thing Runs Amok!

Characters: Jason Burke; Clara Burke; X-13

Synopsis: An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 (April 1973)

Notes: Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

Title: The Magician

Characters: Howard; Uncle Bart

Synopsis: A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: ? (illustration)

Inks: ? (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!

Characters: Steve Miller; "Don Russell"; Nan Miller

Synopsis: An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Joe Letterese

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (November 1973)

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

Title: Mister Black

Characters: Miko Kyusha; Mr. Black

Synopsis: A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Bob Forgione

Inks: Bob Forgione

Letters: Joe Letterese

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #13 (April 1973)

Notes: This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) as "The Voice of Fate!", drawn by Gene Colan. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) Forgione art per Nick Caputo and Michael J. Vassallo. Bob Bailey previously credited Gene Colan.

Title: The Wax People!

Synopsis: The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 (April 1973)

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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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	0	1	1	4	6	8	6	9	7	5	11	7	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	85
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	7	9	6	9	7	5	12	7	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	90

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