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40November 1955
$0.10

Strange Tales #40

Marvel · November 1955 · on sale 1955-08-08

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Series: Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series)
Issue: #40
Publication date: November 1955
Key date: 1955-11-00
On-sale date: 1955-08-08
Indicia publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Man Who Caught a Mermaid?	cover	1	pencils: Joe Maneely; inks: Joe Maneely; colors: Stan Goldberg
1	This Dark Cave	comic story	5	pencils: Bill Benulis; inks: Bill Benulis
2	The Search	text story	2	letters: typeset	Uwaga; Babu; Narodu
3	A Stranger on Earth	comic story	5	script: Bill Everett; pencils: Bill Everett; inks: Bill Everett; letters: Bill Everett	Lok
4	The Man Who Caught a Mermaid!	comic story	4	pencils: John Forte; inks: John Forte	Joe Blair; Jeremy Torgan
5	The End of Time!	comic story	4	pencils: John Forte; inks: John Forte; letters: Ray Holloway
6	No Place to Hide	comic story	5	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Paul Reinman; letters: Joe Letterese	David Reynolds; Joshua Swift

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