Strange Tales #110
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- July 1963
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.12 USD
- Colour
- Black & white
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/17779
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue contents
Cover
The Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete
(The Human Torch)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- The Human Torch
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Paste-Pot Pete [Peter Petruski]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
1Featuring
- Feature
- The Human Torch
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- X-218A
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]; Paste-Pot Pete [Peter Petruski]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo)
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) Ernie Hart [as H.E. Huntley] (script)
- Art
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
Synopsis
Johnny practices on his obstacle course, then thinks back on his adventures with The Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete. By a wild coincidence, Pete breaks The Wizard out of jail and the two join forces. They frame Johnny as a spy, but their partnership is strained by Wiz's megalomania. "I'm a partner, not a servant, you know!" says Pete.
Notes
The Wizard last appears in issue #105 (February 1963), he next appears in a cameo in issue #112, before appearing in issue #118 (March 1964). Paste-Pot Pete last appears in issue #104 (January 1963), he next appears in a cameo in Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #6 (July 1964), before appearing in Strange Tales #124 (September 1964).
More humor than usual in this issue. First time these two villains teamed up in what would become pretty much a lifelong partnership!
2Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- K-306
- Characters
- Hank; Tom Carter; Mike
Credits
- Author
- Letters
- typeset
Synopsis
A quiet new worker at the plant turns out to be a friendly alien who finds mechanical work easy to learn after walking through space.
Notes
Text story with illustration.
3Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- X-220
- Characters
- Sir Edward Ramsay
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot)
Larry Lieber (script) - Pencils
- Larry Lieber
- Inks
- Matt Fox
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Synopsis
A space expedition discovers what they believe is a savage human-like species and flee, not suspecting that they are an advanced psychic race able to meet all their needs through thought.
4Featuring
- Feature
- Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- [X-221 ?]
- Characters
- Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange] (introduction); Wong (introduction, unnamed); Ancient One [Yao] (introduction, called "the Master"); Nightmare (introduction)
Credits
- Script
- Steve Ditko (plot)
Stan Lee (script) - Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Terry Szenics
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1974 series) (1974) — Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic!
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The Avengers (Newton, 1975 series) #1 ([28 June 1975]) — Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic!
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Marvel's Greatest Comics (Yaffa/Page, 1977? series) #2 ([1980?]) — Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic
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Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #23 (1992) — Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic
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Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition (Marvel, 1997 series) (September 1997) — Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic!
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Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (December 2001) — Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic!
- From GCD
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #110
Synopsis
Doctor Strange is called on by a man having bad dreams, and confronts Nightmare. The man’s dreams reveal that he is guilty of fraud and Strange makes him confess.
Notes
This is the first Doctor Strange story. It's clear there's a lot of history between Strange and Nightmare. Doctor Strange resembles Vincent Price, who played a magician in the Roger Corman-Edgar Allan Poe film, The Raven (1963).
Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.