Strange Tales , #108

Published: May 1963

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The Painter of a Thousand Perils

Story Featuring Human Torch

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The Painter of a Thousand Perils!

Story Featuring Human Torch

Storyline

A counterfeiter caught by the Human Torch finds magic paints and uses them to escape from prison and strike back at the Torch. The Torch realizes what is happening and uses the magic paints to fool the Painter and defeat him.

Story Notes

Kirby draws one of the henchmen in the Iron Man story in this month's Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #41 (May 1963) with the same face as Scar Tobin.

The Silent Giant
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An old hermit becomes enraged that the nearby redwood tree will outlive him, but when he dies the tree transforms its friend into an immortal redwood too.

The Iron Warrior
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A knight of King Arthur's court resents the favor shown Merlin and so challenges him to a battle. Merlin's champion, a black knight, wins the competition. The envious knight still sneers at Merlin and claims he has no true magic powers, but Merlin makes a mystic pass and the empty suit of armor falls in pieces upon the ground.

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The Heat's On
Storyline

When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.

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Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Heck credit from the entry for Journey Into Mystery #44.