Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #168

Publisher: Marvel, 1968

About Strange Tales #168

Last Doctor Strange / Nick Fury issue. Yandroth appearance. Jim Steranko art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Exile!

Characters: Dr. Strange; Yandroth; Victoria Bentley

Pencils: Dan Adkins

Inks: Dan Adkins

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: Exile!

Characters: Dr. Strange; Yandroth; Victoria Bentley; Ancient One

Synopsis: Yandroth's shot sends Strange plunging into the abyss, but the Ancient One uses the Trans-Hypnotic Jewel to stop his fall. Strange uses his Cloak of Levitation to grab Yandroth, but sees the Viking women about to kill Victoria. To save her, he releases his grip on Yandroth, sending him plummeting through the Dimension of Dreams, where he will eventually become nothing more than a dream himself. Banishing the phantoms, Strange whisks Victoria back to Earth where the memory of her ordeal will soon fade.

Pages: 11.000

Script: Dennis O'Neil; Dan Adkins (co-plot)

Pencils: Dan Adkins

Inks: Dan Adkins

Letters: Sam Rosen

Reprints: Giant-Size Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (1975)

Notes: Part 22 of 22; part 5 of Yandroth sequence. Series continues next month in DR. STRANGE #169 (June 1968). Yandroth (or what remains of him) would return in MARVEL FEATURE #1 (December 1971).

Title: Today Earth Died!

Characters: Nick Fury; Val [Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine]; Dum Dum Dugan; Jimmy Woo; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Chet Huntley (N.B.C. News); Vaengr

Synopsis: AS Fury begins to doze off in his office he gets a call from Val about a UFO. Landing in mid-town Manhattan a news crew and crowds gather to observe the emergence of an alien named Vaengr. He offers them The Prism Of Miracles which will banish hatred, crime, war and violence. Fury, Val & Dugan search the spaceship and discover Vaengr is not what he seems. Val & Dugan are fried to ashes by the alien who mutates into a monstrous insect-like form and gloats about his destruction of earth. Fury is awakened from his nightmare by Dugan, who tells him of a report just in about a UFO...

Pages: 11.000

Script: Jim Steranko

Pencils: Jim Steranko

Inks: Joe Sinnott

Letters: Sam Rosen

Reprints: Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1979 series) #12 (November 1980)

Notes: A peaceful alien offering a gift pays tribute to THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), while an alien invasion which turns out to be a nightmare-- which starts all over again at the end of the story-- pays tribute to INVADERS FROM MARS (1953). Series continues in NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHIELD #1 (June 1968).

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: George Tuska; Jim Steranko (illustrations)

Inks: Dan Adkins; Joe Sinnott (illustrations)

Letters: typeset; Sam Rosen

Notes: Letters of comment from Jim Bussiere; Mike Butler; Peggy Ann Dolan; and Thomas Miller. Includes two panel reproductions from a previous issue and the announcement of the two series appearing in their own titles.

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