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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: February 1958
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Country: United States
A landlord squeezes a Haitian laundress for more rent and is made ill by voodoo. He has her deported, but the box holding the pills to cure him contains only more boxes, one within the next.; A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost. His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe, but the reappearance of the ghost after the mystic’s crystal breaks suggests that it is real.; A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension. His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely.; A man tries to ruin his partner and romantic rival. He overpowers a ray intended to capture a lion and it explodes. He seems to be blown into the past and hides for a year, but actually the ray's malfunction created a dinosaur out of a fossil, and his partner became rich in his absence.; A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls.; A scientist thinks he has invented a machine to give life to reflections in a mirror, but when he tests it he realizes that he himself is a reflection.