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Strange Tales, #156

Published: May 1967

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Strange Tales #156

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Issue Contents:
..When Umar Walks the Earth!
1.000 pages superhero
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Possible Severin colors per Nick Caputo, who notes that Marie has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew.

The Tribunal!
Story 1 12.000 pages spy

"Nick Fury confined to quarters under armed guard!"

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Fury's quarters are destroyed, apparently killing him! Bronson heads for Hydra Island, a futuristic, hi-tech fortress in the Pacific resuming his guise as Supreme Hydra. He announces to the world that he's placed a Death Spore bomb on board the Heli-Carrier which will unleash a plague upon the entire Earth! He plans to stage a fake trial for Laura, as an example to all who would defy him. Having suspected Bronson from the start, Fury who was hiding on board the Dyna-Soar is captured and discovers the true identity of the Supreme Hydra is Baron Strucker, his old foe from WW2!

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Part 7 of 9. See various issues of SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS for earlier appearances of Baron Strucker. 24 years had elapsed between Fury & Strucker's last meeting and this one. Shortly after this comic's publication, the 007 film YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE would reveal the identity of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s "Number One", Ernst Stavros Blofeld; Donald Pleasence's onscreen appearance, bald with an odd, monocle-shaped scar, is similar to Strucker's. In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales #165.

A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing!
Story 2 1.000 pages
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Items; List of Marvel TV Stations; list of 26 M.M.M.S. members

Umar Walks the Earth!
Story 3 10.000 pages superhero

"In order to foil the fiendish Umar, I have sent my disciple, Dr. Strange,"

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The Ancient One sends Strange to the Amphora, a large vase guarded by fiery demons in order to free Zom, a being imprisoned by Eternity. Umar comes to earth, destroys Strange's house and summons The Ancient One. Strange unleashes Zom who he persuades to follow him to Earth. The Ancient One lures Umar to Stonehenge where he defeated Dormammu in the past. Strange surprises Umar who flees back to The Dark Dimension, where Zom cannot find her! Zom had been bound by chains of living bondage by Dormammu and seeks vengeance, but with Umar gone he turns his anger against Strange and his mentor.

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Part 10 of 22; part 6 of Umar sequence; part 1 of Zom sequence. Umar comes to Earth for first time.

Story 4 1.000 pages

"Dear Stan, In the past few issues..."

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Letters from: Wally Daniels, Shirley Gorman, Barry Brookner, and David Walker; Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.