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Strange Tales #94

Marvel · Series began 1951 · March 1962

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Dates

Cover date: March 1962
On sale: December 12, 1961
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #94 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
Source ↗
UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

British

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

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditkoinks: Dick Ayers, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, John Duffy

Stories

I Was a Decoy for Pildorr: The Plunderer from Outer Space! · 7 pages
Earth sends a pilot to get an important cargo past attacking space pirates. He is caught and thrown into space, his cargo taken. The cargo is a cobalt bomb that destroys the pirates, and the pilot is a robot, so he survives.
The Treasure · 2 pages
A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.
Save Me from the Weed! · 6 pages
A man urges his unambitious gardener to go into business for himself, but his humble diligence saves the world when he snips a radioactive telepathic weed while it rests.
He Came from Nowhere! · 5 pages
A fugitive meets a man from the future who offers to switch places. When he arrives, however, he finds that the man was another criminal, a shape-shifting Uranian. The authorities imprison him, assuming his form is a disguise.
Help! · 5 pages
A man gets a mysterious call for help but thinks it's a crank call and slams down the phone, breaking it. The caller is overjoyed, since it was a tiny alien spaceship trapped inside the phone receiver.

Publisher’s description

Four bizarre supernatural tales featuring: an alien traveler from the future, a killer weed monster, space pirate Pildorr the Plunderer, and a sentient spaceship!

Reprinted in

Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Spellbound (1960), Uncanny Tales (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967), Supernatural Thrillers (1972), Kull, the Destroyer (1973), Giant-Size Man-Thing (1974), Monster Menace (1993), Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (2004), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2005), King-Size Kirby (2015), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (2019), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2019)