Strange Tales , #93

Published: February 1962

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Issue Contents:
The Wax People
Credits
Story Notes

Pencils credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Steve Ditko.

When the Thing Runs Amok!
Storyline

An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance.

Story Notes

Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

The Magician
Storyline

A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past.

Story Notes

Text story with illustration.

Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!
Storyline

An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career.

Story Notes

The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

Mister Black
Storyline

A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls.

Story Notes

This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) as "The Voice of Fate!", drawn by Gene Colan. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) Forgione art per Nick Caputo and Michael J. Vassallo. Bob Bailey previously credited Gene Colan.

The Wax People!
Storyline

The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing.

Credits
Story Notes

The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.