Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #118

Publisher: Marvel, 1964

About Strange Tales #118

Human Torch and Dr. Strange features. Fantastic Four and Wizard appearances. Cover by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Story art by Ditko and Dick Ayers.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Return of the Wizard, Master of Evil!/The Possessed!

Characters: Wizard [Bentley Wittman] (disguised as the Human Torch); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]

Pencils: Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko (inset)

Inks: Chic Stone; Steve Ditko (inset)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (26 July 2005); the original indexer credited George Roussos.

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: The Man Who Became the Torch!

Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]

Synopsis: The Wizard breaks jail, and begins pulling crimes using a new anti-gravity flying device he's invented. Via trickery and disguise, he captures Johnny, then Sue, and begins impersonating Johnny, while planning bigger and bolder crimes with which to use his anti-gravity device. With the help of Reed and Ben, Sue and Johnny escape, and Johnny goes after The Wizard, who attempts to escape by flying higher and higher with his anti-grav disc. But it malfunctions, and, unable to control it, he just keeps going higher and higher...

Pages: 13.000

Script: Stan Lee (co-plot, script); Dick Ayers (co-plot, un-credited)

Pencils: Dick Ayers

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #20 (May 1969)

Notes: This is the fourth appearance of The Wizard; he last appears in issue #110 (July 1963) and he next appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #36 (March 1965), when he was rescued by Paste-Pot Pete and The Sandman. The time-frame is a bit off, as Pete and the Sandman broke jail sometime after Pete's appearance in issue #124 (September 1964), and most or all of the remaining Torch solo stories up to Strange Tales #134 (July 1965) take place before the formation of the Frightful Four! (How long was he up there in the atmosphere?). Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (26/03/2010)

Title: The Weatherman

Characters: Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms

Synopsis: In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely

Inks: Joe Maneely

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: The Possessed!

Characters: Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Herr Braun; Fraulein Lieber

Synopsis: Using his "Earthly Scanner," in which is a small replica of the planet, Strange senses evil somewhere in Bavaria. In a remote village, he finds the townspeople the victims of some strange form of possession, and believes a supernatural force is at work. But he soon discovers it's really the work of aliens from another dimension. He sends them packing, and seals off the dimensional doorway forever.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko (co-plot)

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Sam Rosen

Reprints: Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #8 (April 1967)

Notes: This is the first appearance of The Orb Of Agamotto. The dimensional doorway which changes appearance to that of a large rock resembles the alien house in "The Outer Limits" episode, "The Guests."

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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	3	1	2	0	2	4	8	14	15	24	15	15	24	27	28	31	37	30	23	18	15	7	2	0	0	345
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	13
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	1	1	0	2	1	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	14
Total	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	2	5	8	15	18	28	16	17	26	28	31	32	40	33	27	19	16	7	2	0	0	376

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