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Strange Tales (1951 1st Series) UK Edition comic books in grade FN or lower

  • Issue #109UK
    Strange Tales (1951 1st Series) UK Edition 109UK
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • U.K. Price Variant.
    • Label #4358329001
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Human Torch stars in "The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box," script by Stan Lee (plot) and Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandoras Box for his own profit; Fantastic Four guest appearance. "The Comic" text story. "Earth Is Off-Limits!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. "Time Was...", script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Sol Brodsky; A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times; When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a Neanderthal. 36 pgs., full color.

  • Issue #177UK
    Strange Tales (1951 1st Series) UK Edition 177UK

    UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 8p cover price. Cover art by Frank Brunner. "There Comes Now Raging Fire!", script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Tony deZuniga, inks by Steve Austin; Furious over the defeat of his air-demons, Kaballa decides to send two fire-demons out to destroy Golem; Yeates refuses to believe that the Golem is really alive, and decides to himself that discovery that the statue really is would jeopardize his bid for becoming chairman of the department over Saudia. Reprint of an old weird story, "The Girl Behind the Glass!" starring Jonas Case, art by Jay Scott Pike. Ad for Dracula Lives. 36 pgs., full color.

  • Issue #178UK
    Strange Tales (1951 1st Series) UK Edition 178UK
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 8p cover price. Cover art by Jim Starlin. Warlock begins in this title in "Who Is Adam Warlock?", script and art by Jim Starlin; Sphinxor retells the Origin of Warlock, his encounters with Thor and the High Evolutionary, the Creation of Counter-Earth and Warlock's Battle against the Man-Beast; First appearance of the Magus; Cameo appearances by the Hulk. The story continues from Incredible Hulk 178. 36 pgs., full color.