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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Marvel
Title: Strange Tales
Page Count: 36
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror-suspense, Science Fiction
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1958
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Country: United States
A miner caves in the shaft he works to aid a beautiful girl from an underground kingdom. No one believes him and he is jailed, but the girl returns in a digging machine to rescue him.; The obituary editor of a newspaper sees events before they happen. The source of his abilities his found after he turns in his last story, when his replacement discovers the obituary he wrote for himself years previously.; An old zoo-keeper instinctively recognizes the evil in a new specimen. It is an alien sent to turn the animals against humans, but it is killed by the zoo's gorilla, the animal closest to humans.; A skeptical man mocks an Indian mystic, but he is convinced by a terrifying illusion in which he gains the ability to see the coming of death.; A thief seduces a rich young woman alone on a moored yacht. When he tries to rob her safe he finds the yacht drifting out to sea. The woman waves goodbye from the dock, explaining that she too was a thief, cursed to stay aboard for five years until someone took her place.; An undersea invasion is foiled when their scouting expedition is confused by their contemptuous reception from an old woman who takes them for actors.