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  Strange Tales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strange Tales was the name of several comic book anthology series that have been published by Marvel Comics.
Initially modeled after the gory morality tales of the popular and groundbreaking EC line of comics, Strange Tales became lesss outré with the 1954 imposition of the Comics Code, which prohibited graphic horror, as well as vampires, zombies and other classical monsters.
Strange Tales' first superhero, in 12- to 14-page stories, was the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, Johnny Storm, beginning in #101 (Oct. 1962).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strange_Tales   (1159 words)

  
 Doctor Strange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth; he has unparalleled mastery of the mystic arts, which he uses to defend his reality from otherworldly threats; his primary magical patrons are a group of entities known as "the Vishanti." The Vishanti are a trinity of godly beings comprised of Agamotto, Hoggoth, and Oshtur.
Strange's own power is often amplified by the numerous magical artifacts that are in his possession or by artifacts that he uses in the course of his adventures.
Strange (along with the Fantastic Four) appears in the song "Superbird" on the album "Electric Music for the Mind and Body", by Country Joe and the Fish, (Vanguard VSD 79244), released in January, 1967.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doctor_Strange   (3647 words)

  
 Dr. Strange from Strange Tales #141-150
Exhausted from his battle with Dormammu, Dr. Strange is captured and rendered helpless by a trio of Baron Mordo's disciples.
Strange, using his astralform and cloak of levitation defeats Mister Rasputin and turns him over to the authorities.
Strange and the Ancient One have fled from Kaluu and traveled into the past to recover the Book of the Vishanti, stolen by Kaluu.
www.geocities.com /marvelsilver/comics/st_150.html   (558 words)

  
 Doctor Strange Masterworks Vol. 1
In fact, after the two premiere stories in Strange Tales #110 and 111, therewas a two-month hiatus for ol' Doc, I guess to presume the fan reaction to the new hero.
Strange even mentioned on the front cover, and then was given either a "blurb in a box" or a smalldrawing advertising his backup story.
Harried and held hostage by the cruel Dormammu, Dr. Strange rescues herand her race from the villainous king, and she is forever in his debt, forever admiring of him.
www.marvelmasterworks.com /drs_mm01.html   (938 words)

  
 DITKO LOOKED UP - 'Dr. Strange Review' Christopher Melchert
Enter his dream Strange does, via "metaphysical spirit." This spirit form was one of his most-used weapons in the Ditko era.
Confronting the chained dream figure, Strange learns that it is a symbol of the sleeper's evil--a symbol that will continue to haunt him as long as he does not confess.
Ditko's Doctor Strange series was certainly supernatural, but by close-ups and other devices, he continually interested us in Strange's personal reaction to his situation: in classic Ditko fashion, the lonely man who does his best, never gives up, fully recognizes the risks of defeat and destruction but runs them anyway.
www.ditko.comics.org /ditko/crea/crdrsrev.html   (2299 words)

  
 eBay - strange tales, Comics, Fiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Strange Tales #106 F- 5.5 Fantastic Four App.
Strange Tales #111 F+ 6.5 2nd Doctor Strange
Strange Tales #130 VF 8.0 The Beatles cameo
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 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange debuted in the back pages of Strange Tales #110 (July, 1963) where The Human Torch was the cover feature.
Strange's villains included Nightmare, the living embodiment of unrestful sleep, and The Dread Dormammu, an other-dimensional despot with open flame where his head should be.
Doctor Strange abandoned the skin-tights and reverted to his robes and cloaks, and continued to pop up here and there for the next several years.
www.toonopedia.com /drstrnge.htm   (940 words)

  
 Doctor Strange
Strange has the ability to manipulate mystical energies and has a great mastery of the arts of magic.
Wears a cloak of levitation enabling him to fly and wears the eye of Agomotto which is the source of many great powers such as radiating blinding lights to providing a gateway into other dimensions.
Once a gifted, yet arrogant and selfish Neurosurgeon, Stephen Strange was involved in an automobile accident leaving his nerves damaged and his days as a surgeon came to a quick end.
www.samruby.com /Heroes/DoctorStrange/drstrange.htm   (333 words)

  
 MarvelDirectory.com
History: Stephen Strange was a brilliant but arrogant neurosurgeon whose career was cut short when a car accident resulted in nerve damage to his hands.
Hoping for a miracle, a despondent Strange traveled to the Himalayas to seek the counsel of the Ancient One, a Tibetan sorcerer.
As the Ancient One's guest, Strange learned the sorcerer's pupil Baron Mordo was plotting to kill his mentor.
www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/d/drstrange.htm   (385 words)

  
 Alison Pegg's scary fairy tales, ghost stories, folktales and fables online at 17xthemoon.com
The Strange Tale of the Fairy Galleons of Newhaven
The Strange Tale of Desirée Doucet and le Loup Garou
The Strange Tale of Isabella and the Unicorn
www.members.aol.com /AlisonPegg/moon.htm   (421 words)

  
 Strange Tales of Disparate Data
According to Strange, the company had taken out a series of space ads, asking customers who held homeowners policies to call and get a special rate on auto insurance.
The company was paying a foreign firm to enter its data, and the bonus structure was based on the volume of records processed.
As a result, keypunch operators were throwing in any numbers that happened to come into their heads, if not using the same number over and over, Strange said.
directmag.com /mag/marketing_strange_tales_disparate/index.html   (470 words)

  
 Golem (Strange Tales)
History: (Incredible Hulk I#134 (fb) / Strange Tales I#174(fb)-In the 15th Century, in the city of Prague, the wise man Judah Loew Ben Bezazel created the form of the Golem, caving him out of rock, and breathing life into him by supernatual means.
He then set the creature against those responsible for his people's plight, and it fought for them until "there was justice for his people in the city of Prague," after which it vanished from them forever.
Strange Tales#175, reprinted an old monster story and contained no tales of the Golem, as the result of a problem with a deadline.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/golem1.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Monster (Strange Tales)
History: (Strange Tales I#92/1 (fb)) - The Monster was sent to Earth in order to study it, but as soon as her flying saucer touched down on Earth she was observed by the "weird old geezer." She tried to kill him, but he escaped her by diving into a stream.
(Strange Tales I#92/1) - Three years later the Monster was carrying on her work observing humans and trying to fit in among them.
She was nearly broke when her friend Marge recommended a cheap apartment in New York City.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix2/monsterstrange.htm   (429 words)

  
 Strange Tales #8 (vol. 4, no. 1) edited by Robert M. Price
When STRANGE TALES first appeared in 1931 as a pulp magazine, it was clearly something new.
Had the Great Depression not intervened and killed it after seven issues, the whole history of fantastic fiction might have been different.
STRANGE TALES rapidly attracted the most imaginative and capable writers of the day, including ROBERT E. CAVE, JACK WILLIAMSON, AUGUST DERLETH, RAY CUMMINGS, and numerous others.
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 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The March 2002 issue of Comic Book Artist features interviews with Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner, who collaborated on some of the most cosmic Dr. Strange tales ever in the 1970's.
Satana Hellstrom is Satan's daughter, Jennifer Kale is a sorceress and friend of Man-Thing, and Topaz is an empath and friend of Dr. Strange and former girlfriend to Jack Russell (Werewolf by Night).
Russell's last Dr. Strange work was the excellent "What Is It That Disturbs You, Steven?" one-shot special, back in Oct. 1997.
www.docstrange.com /newsnreviews/dsssnews.asp   (813 words)

  
 Strange Tales, World Fantasy Award Winner, 2004, published by Tartarus Press
Strange Tales, World Fantasy Award Winner, 2004, published by Tartarus Press
"A most impressive feature of the collection is the eclectic variety of style and content, and the way in which the various tales forge themselves into a collective exploration of 'strangeness' that is most disconcerting.
As such, it fulfils the true purpose of an anthology: not simply a mix of interesting pieces, but a cohesive whole infused with a unifying vision, something greater than the sum of the total parts.
homepages.pavilion.co.uk /users/tartarus/stft.htm   (352 words)

  
 Strange Tales/Ray Bradbury Theatre
An award-winning anthology of tales from the modern master of fantasy and science fiction, Ray Bradbury.
In "The town where no one got off," a train passenger makes a strange wager about a whistle-stop town on the route.
In Tim Burton's latest tale, a mild-mannered man finds himself married, albeit accidentally, to an undead woman.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/strange_talesray_bradbury_theatre   (319 words)

  
 Doctor Strange Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
also i have a doctor strange pocketbook with many of the doc's classic comics in it.
strange related comics (press here and enter "doctor strange" & press "search")
if you are a mad fan of dr. strange like me and i have something that you just must read, write to me email - and i will try to scan it and email it to you.
www.cs.bgu.ac.il /~wasse/drs   (209 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Two Strange Tales: Books: Mircea Eliade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic.
If you are not familiar with his other works--that is not a problem (and perhaps a positive) because you will not be deflected from the quality of the fiction itself (which is superb).
The first tale, "Nights at Serampore," set in and around the town of Serampore, India, in the 1930s, describes the unsettling and life-changing experiences of a European student while visiting a friend in an isolated forest near the town.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570626634?v=glance   (1318 words)

  
 DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES: HISTORY & HAUNTINGS OF CRIME, MURDER & UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
The reader will find all sorts of weird tales here, from horrible murders to mysterious vanishings.
Not all of the stories will be ghostly tales but in every case, each of them was sufficiently strange to be included here anyway.
Strange New York Tale of Murder and A Haunted House
www.prairieghosts.com /crime.html   (637 words)

  
 COMICON.com: HALLOWEEN REVIEW STRANGE TALES # 168
He spent the day dealing with the Yellow Claw and his henchmen, but the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was in for a surprise when he learned that horror upon horror, "Today Earth Died!" in this story from Strange Tales #168.
Strange Tales #168 "Today Earth Died!" May, 1968
I love the smell of the quarter boxes in the morning.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=002897   (1462 words)

  
 Tower Records - Strange Tales - Dominic Yarns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dominic Yarns is a bit of an enigma.Like good wine and smooth whiskey he has taken his time maturing as a singer,a song writer,a musical arranger,a producer,a sound engineer and DJ.
It was mid winter 1997 when he shunned all offers of gainfull employment and retreated to write a new set of catchy rock songs with strange lyrical content.He wrote of alien encounters,crystals,freedom and liberation,natural energy,magic,entrepreneurial hermits,old flames,sons and daughters and General Uforia!!
In June 1997 Sony Music(formerly CBS France)sent him his six monthly royalty payment.He could hardly believe his eyes when he noticed the amount accrued from previous vinyl releases given a new airing in CD format.It was enough for him to live for a year without to much pressure.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2909572   (347 words)

  
 GCD Database Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Strange, Clea, The Thing, Human Torch; Ice Queen; Shazana
F: Dr. Strange; V: Shazana, Dormammu, Baron Mordo; GA: Clea, Ancient One
Reprinted: In Marvel Masterworks 23; Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts trade paperback; Strange Tales 184; Doctor Strange Classics Starring Doctor Strange #2 (April 1984); Dr. Strange Pocket color paperback #2; Marvel's Greatest Comics #24
www.comics.org /details.lasso?id=19240   (156 words)

  
 United States Department of David Danzig
The Andrew Letters: This is some very strange surrealistic correspondence, which is only very vaguely sexual.
These two, very short, poems were written using the commercially available "magnetic poetry kit."
The Volk Correspondence: A tale of Political Correctness going to far-- or not far enough?
www.creamy.com   (477 words)

  
 Strange & Unusual Tales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Here are some of the more rare and unusual Doctor Strange tales and appearances...
(Dr. Strange's first appearance was in July, 1963)
and "Dr. Strange and the Horrible Hydra!", a maze puzzle.
www.docstrange.com /newsnreviews/strtales.asp   (91 words)

  
 Welcome To Strange Tales - The Web Presence Of Mark West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Welcome To Strange Tales - The Web Presence Of Mark West
This web site was created for FREE at www.homestead.com.
One of the brightest horror writers to come out of England since Clive Barker
www.mwest1.homestead.com   (56 words)

  
 DOCTOR STRANGE'S WEB-SITE
THE SITE FOR FANS OF I will make this the best site possible for the good doctor.
This site will include Clea, Dormammu, Baron Mordo, Nightmare and all characters from Dr. Strange comics.
Complete checklists for all of MARVEL COMIC'S characters appearing in Strange Tales, Marvel Premeire and all Docs comics.
www.doctorstrange.net   (86 words)

  
 STRANGE TALES
1st appearance of Doctor Strange, Ancient One, Nightmare and Wong
1st appearance of Eternity, Clea is finally given a name, 1st full Dr. Strange cover
185 Reprints Strange Tales#134,135 Klaus Jansen inks cover
www.doctorstrange.net /strangetales.html   (428 words)

  
 CNN.com - Beer-guzzling bears and other strange tales - Dec 27, 2004
CNN.com - Beer-guzzling bears and other strange tales - Dec 27, 2004
Barbie, left, got more time to treat patients and hang with friends after splitting with long-time beau Ken.
All external sites will open in a new browser.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/12/17/yir.offbeat   (949 words)

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