Strange Tales #68 Big Apple Pedigree (Atlas, 1959) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages....

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Sold: Apr 10, 2022

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Publisher: Marvel, 1959

About Strange Tales #68

The first Marvel issue of the title, previously published by Atlas. Jack Kirby cover. Story art by Kirby, Steve Ditko, Joe Sinnott, John Buscema, Carl Burgos.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Evacuate Earth!

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Last Warning--Evacuate Earth!

Characters: Makka

Synopsis: A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades. It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. Convinced that the humans' lack of fear is due to some impenetrable defence, the alien leaves and warns its people to call off the invasion.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: Mystery Trip

Characters: Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete

Synopsis: Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.

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: The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit!

Characters: Serge Kemplet; Kloto

Synopsis: A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. They stole the magic ball that kept Atlantis safe from the waves and so a sorcerer cast a spell that would send them to the deepest pit in the Earth. They offer to make the man ruler of humans if he returns them to the surface would. He agrees, but then has second thoughts about unleashing their mischief upon unsuspecting humanity and destroys the bathysphere, accepting underground exile in the process.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: Test Pilot!

Characters: Ralph Preston (only appearance)

Synopsis: A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight. He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 14-16, 18 of comic (pages of story misnumbered 1, 2, 3, 5).

Title: Next Stop--Mars!

Characters: Shorty; Walter Lanson

Synopsis: A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes. He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Carl Burgos

Inks: Carl Burgos

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Title: Trapped In Tomorrow!

Characters: Willy Phelps

Synopsis: A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself. He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. When he tries to return to the past, however, he finds that he accidentally left his time machine in a futuristic garbage processor, and it has been disintegrated.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: John Buscema

Inks: John Buscema

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the second person. This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960) as "Time on My Hands!" drawn by John Forte. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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