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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Marvel
Title: Strange Tales
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror-suspense, Science Fiction
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1956
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Country: United States
Three men who dream of the adventure of knights join a mirage in the desert set during the Crusades.; A cowardly boy is ashamed when space aliens interrogate him for when would be the best time to invade and he is too frightened to even lie to them. They let him go so he can check the paper for the best time to invade and he regrets his cowardice. When he sees tomorrow is the fourth of July he tells the aliens to invade after nightfall and the fireworks display frightens them off.; An employee of the state department who wishes for an out of the way assignment gets his wish when he becomes the envoy for the Martian embassy.; A man who can experience the past in his imagination goes back to the creation.; An alien with orders to colonize Earth lands and asks the first person he sees if he is on Earth. The man sarcastically answers him "No, it's Mars." The alien disappears and scientists detect through telescopes the colonization activity on Mars, which the alien has mistaken for Earth.; A timid hypnotist hypnotizes himself hoping to give himself the daring to succeed in business, but after coming out of his trance, he realizes that the wealth he had thought he accumulated over the course of one year was all in his mind.