Strange Tales #108
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- May 1963
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.12 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/17674
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue contents
Cover
"The Painter of a Thousand Perils"
(Human Torch [Johnny Storm])
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing (image); Invisible Girl (image); Mr. Fantastic (image); The Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile]
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Reprint history
- Printed in
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967) [1/9th page]
in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]
in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
1Featuring
- Feature
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard (flashback); Zemu (flashback); "Scar" Tobin (gangster chief) (Intro); The Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile] (counterfeiter) (Intro); Nick (gangster); Sam (gangster); Eddie (gangster); Mr. Fantastic (image); Invisible Girl (image); Thing (image)
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (Plot), Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (Script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Terry Szenics
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Climax Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1962 series) #4 ([June 1965?]) — The Painter of a Thousand Perils!
-
Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
-
The Fantastic Four (Newton, 1975 series) #8 (1975) — The Painter of a Thousand Perils!
-
The Human Torch (Marvel, 1974 series) #8 (November 1975) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
-
Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 ([October] 2003) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
Synopsis
Johnny captures a gang of truck hijackers, and a gang robbing a costume party. Meanwhile, gang leader "Scar" Tobin is visited by counterfeiter Wilhelm Van Vile, a painter notorious for his carelessness, which causes Tobin to fear he's been followed by the cops, and tells him to hit the road! But Van Vile demonstrates his new "talent"-- the ability to quickly make paintings which come magically to life, and follow his telepathic commands! These include a 3-headed gorilla, a gun that wears tons, and a flying carpet. While zooming over the city, Van Vile tells Tobin's gang how he found the paints, left behind by aliens from space, in an underground cavern while tunneling out of jail. His ambition is to create an army of crime, and he feels beating The Human Torch (who helped send him to jail) will be a good test-case. But despite sending painting-images of Reed, Sue & Ben to kill him, Johnny triumphs, destroys the alien paints and rounds up the gang.
Notes
"Scar" Tobin-- apparently-- makes a one-panel cameo appearance in the Iron Man story in this month's TALES OF SUSPENSE #41 (May 1963).
2Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Script
- Larry Lieber
- Art
- Sol Brodsky
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Art Simek
Notes
Inking credited in MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #30 reprint. Writer & penciller credit by Barry Pearl; originally listed Stan Lee (plot) & Larry Lieber (pencils).
3Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Characters
- Merlin; King Arthur; Black Knight (animated suit of armor); Sir Mogard (Intro)
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
4Credits
- Author
- Letters
- Typeset
Notes
Info by Barry Pearl.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.