Strange Tales , #98

Published: July 1962

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Issue Contents:
No Human Can Beat Me!
Credits
No Human Can Beat Me!
Storyline

An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded. The alien defeats all comers until one man challenges it to sleep longer than him, claiming to have slept for one million years. The alien vows to sleep for two million years. Guards are set up around the cave to keep anyone from disturbing the creature and the man's formerly nagging wife is eternally grateful to him for saving Earth.

Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. The third and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

The Party
Storyline

A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.

Story Notes

Text story with illustration.

They Vanished Forever!
Storyline

Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed.

Credits
Story Notes

The second and fifth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

The TV Fan!
Storyline

A lazy cad tricks a rich girl into marrying him so that he can watch TV all day. His wife sees her mistake and reveals that she’s a witch, turning him into a fan on the television: a ‘tv fan’.

Credits
Story Notes

The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

A Fortune in Beans!
Storyline

A bean seller is chagrined to find that he has competition from the Giant, of Jack and Beanstalk fame, who has decided to go into business selling his giant beans.

Credits
Story Notes

The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.