Strange Tales 1951 #112 - 4.0 - $40.00
On-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements and is the first issue to be published without text pages.
- The Living Bomb! - Possible Kirby inks per Nick Caputo based on an examination at his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/09/kirby-inking-kirby.html. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.
- The Living Bomb! - The Eel next appears in issue #117 (February 1964). The Eel, with his blueish-purple costume and oily-slick coating may have inspired the villain on the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "The Slippery Doctor Von Schlick". Charles Lawson, an atomic scientist, may have been related to Walter Lawson, an expert in guided missiles, who died in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #13 (March 1968). The plot about a miniature atomic pile which eventually explodes is similar to the Mike Hammer film, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955).
- Don't Miss Another Big One from Marvel! - Promo features a cover repro of the Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963).
- Marvel Comics Group Ushers in the Marvel Age of Comics! - Promo includes cover repros of the Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1; Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 and the logo of X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) announcing that new series.
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