Strange Tales #89

Dates

Cover date

October 1961

On sale

July 11, 1961

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #89 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition10¢ cover

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

  British

  Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• Fin Fang Foom! · 13 pages

  A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its lair before restoring its mystical slumber.

• The Future · 2 pages

  A quiz show host finds himself mysteriously transported to the far future for a brief time.

• The Green Things! · 5 pages

  A wealthy retiree keeps a magnificent greenhouse, where he talks to the plants. When a burglar tries to kill him, his plants come to life and stop the intruder, saving their friend's life.

• The Touch of Midas! · 5 pages

  A greedy man locates the source of Midas’s power, planning to stop the undesirable effects with gloves. He gains the power but finds that his gloves turn to gold, dooming him to the same fate as Midas.

Characters

Reprinted in

Astounding Stories (1966), Sinister Tales (1964), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Astonishing Tales (1970), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Crazy Magazine (1973), Monster Masterworks (1989), Bring Back the Bad Guys (1998), Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (2004), Astonishing X-Men (2004), Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (2005), Marvel Monsters (2006), Hulk vs. Fin Fang Foom (2008), King-Size Kirby (2015), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Horror Omnibus (2019), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)