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Strange Tales , #90 British

Published: November 1961

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Orrgo, the Unconquerable!
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Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

Orrgo... The Unconquerable!
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An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.

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Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001). Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Special Sale
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When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

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

A Thousand Years Later...
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A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.

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Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958). Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

The Inhuman!
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In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.

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Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Germ Warfare
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A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.

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Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).