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Strange Tales , #86

Published: July 1961

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Issue Contents:
I Who Created Mechano!
Credits
I Created Mechano!
Storyline

A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it. They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away, moments before the police arrive and blast Mechano to bits.

Credits
Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Mechano" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).

Discovery
Storyline

A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

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Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Georgie's Globe!
Storyline

A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world. When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a far away dead world explodes.

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Story Notes

Possible Lee script per Nick Caputo's examination at his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!
Storyline

Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict. A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion.

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Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. The title is a reference to the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," which comes from the story of the Trojan Horse. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).