| Issue | #112 |
| Published | September 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements, and is the first issue of Strange Tales to be published without text pages. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers?; Jack Kirby? |
| Colors | Stan Goldberg ? |
| Notes | Jack Kirby inks suggested by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. The original indexer had Dick Ayers firmly. |
| Reprinted | in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke] (introduction, origin); Ted Braddock (TV commentator); Charles Lawson; Moxie Gahagan; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Wizard (cameo) |
| Synopsis | A TV host starts a public campaign against the Human Torch. The Torch’s efforts to regain his popularity fail, but when he stops the high tech thief the Eel from detonating a powerful bomb he is redeemed. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Jerry Siegel [as Joe Carter] (script) |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | The Eel next appears in issue #117 (February 1964). The Eel, with his blueish-purple costume and oily-slick coating may have inspired the villain on the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick". Charles Lawson, an atomic scientist, may have been related to Walter Lawson, an expert in guided missiles, who died in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #13 (March 1968). The plot about a miniature atomic pile which eventually explodes is similar to that in the Mike Hammer film, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955). Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution (21/03/2010) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #15 (July 1968); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1; in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #11 |
| Notes | Advertises the Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963). |
| Characters | Karl King; Tibo |
| Synopsis | A gem merchant hears of the world's largest ruby guarded by a legendary giant statue in Tibet. He travels to Tibet and steals the ruby, but his escape is cut off by a boulder as he drives his jeep down the mountain pass and he is startled to see the giant statue is alive and pursuing him. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Ray Holloway |
| Notes | Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010) |
| Notes | Advertises the Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 and the Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 as well as the launch of the X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series). |
| Characters | Tom Bronson |
| Synopsis | A deserter from the Space Corps of the future finds a replica of his home town and friends on an alien world. A stranger reveals that they are illusions created from imagination of those who visit this planet and they disappear. The man is horrified to find that he too is only a figment of the stranger's imagination. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010) |