Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #150

Publisher: Marvel, 1966

About Strange Tales #150

Featuring Nick Fury and Doctor Strange. Kaluu appearance. John Buscema's first work for Marvel. Bill Everett cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Exit Kaluu... Enter Umar!

Characters: Umar; Dr. Strange; Kaluu

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Letters: typeset; Bill Everett ?

Notes: New masthead designed by Sol Brodsky (mentioned on the Bullpen Bulletins page).

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: Hydra Lives!

Characters: Nick Fury; Jasper Sitwell; Dum Dum Dugan; Senator Dudley (member of Plans & Operations Section); Supreme Hydra ["Don Cabellero"]; HYDRA

Synopsis: Fury subjects himself to a dangerous test in order to prove that an atomic missile can be detonated long-distance by a sonic weapon which SHIELD believes HYDRA has. While both he & Dugan are recovering from injuries, Don Cabellero, at the urging of an undercover SHIELD man, invites Fury to a party in ancient Karnopolis in the Sahara Desert. Caballero is a disguise for the new Supreme Hydra, who is aware a SHIELD agent has invaded his ranks. Fury tells Sitwell he will be in command during his absence but suddenly a sonic boom shakes the HQ as the Overkill Horn is being tested.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Stan Lee; Jack Kirby (co-plot)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (layouts); John Buscema

Inks: Frank Giacoia

Letters: Sam Rosen

Reprints: SHIELD [Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD] (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (June 1973)

Notes: Part 1 of 9. 1st appearance of the new Supreme Hydra, later revealed to have been its real leader all along, behind-the-scenes. In this episode, Jasper Sitwell is a dead ringer for Roy Thomas!

Title: The Conquest of Kaluu!

Characters: Kaluu; Dr. Strange; The Ancient One; Griffin (Babylonian beast); Mindless Ones; Clea; Umar (Dormammu's sister)

Synopsis: Kaluu realizes Strange and the Ancient One have escaped to the past of ancient Babylonia where The Ancient One obtains The Book Of The Vishanti. Before Kaluu can extinguish the Flames of the Faltine, Strange returns to the present with the mystic book which hurls his spell back to him. The Ancient One sends Kaluu into Limbo for all time. In The Dark Dimension Clea fears the onslaught of the Mindless One's freed from their prison with Dormammu gone. But another former prisoner controls them: Umar, Dormammu's sister, who vows his deeds shall pale beside hers.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Roy Thomas; Bill Everett (co-plot)

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Part 4 of 22. 1st appearance of Umar. Candles used in time-travel previously used in STRANGE TALES #124 (September 1964). Due to the growing use of soap-opera format, Kaluu's story runs straight into Umar's without a break between episodes. It seems ironic that Kaluu was described as being more powerful than Strange & his mentor together, yet with this episode he vanished, never to return; while Umar became a long-running villain still appearing to this day.

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