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Strange Tales #96

Marvel · Series began 1951 · May 1962

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Dates

Cover date: May 1962
On sale: February 8, 1962
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #96 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
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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, Don Heck, Steve Ditkoinks: Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

I Dream of Doom! · 7 pages
Frank Atwell can't sleep because he has nightmares in which a monster tries to catch him. His doctor sedates him and he sleeps so heavily that the monster catches him before he can wake up. He discovers his dream world is the real world, and he is its king, while the mundane world was a dream, or was it?
The Universal Gadget · 1.75 pages
A mysterious salesman offers a product that can do anything, but his customer decides that his ordinary contentment is better than the risk of the unknown.
The Impossible Tunnel! · 6 pages
Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe. He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world.
Beware the Future Man! · 5 pages
A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state. The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display.
The Clock-Maker! · 5 pages
The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect. When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him. The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him.

Reprinted in

Weird Planets (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), The Empire Strikes Back Weekly (1980), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Out of This World (1963), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Fear (1970), Creatures on the Loose (1971), Dead of Night (1973), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Tomb of Darkness (1974), Out of This World (1981), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)