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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Marvel
Title: Strange Tales
Page Count: 36
Genre: Fantasy, Horror-suspense, Science Fiction
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: August 1958
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Country: United States
A conman hires some elderly women and young girls to enter a cabinet so that the old woman exit the back and the young girls come out the front to give the illusion that their youth has been restored. The old women in the audience throw money at the man who promises them their youth back. A sorceress appears who wants the treatment and he admits that he is a fraud. The sorceress ages him.; A man discovers a metal that when cut in two remains connected even though it appears that there is empty space between the parts. He starts a magic act where anything he tosses through one hoop pops out the other. An audience member discovers his secret and forces him into criminal acts. When the thief forces the man to construct a crate to hold the loot, he places the hoop inside the crate and breaks down the door he was imprisoned behind. He confronts the thief who attempts to escape through his hoop but finds himself inside the sealed crate on the way to the penitentiary.; A man finds that he can rob helpless frozen people if he stops all of the clocks in town but he forgets about a sundial.; One man thinks that humans cannot achieve space travel, and must allow nature to take them to other worlds like seeds. He is ignored, but when he becomes a spiritual leader spreading the message of love his theory is proved, as people disappear under the warming power of love.; A man saves his own life by sending a radio message through time that helps a younger version of himself escape a cave-in.; A Martian filmmaker teleports a human filmmaker's Martian set to Mars and is disappointed to find human culture identical to Martian culture.