Strange Tales 1951 #156 - reader copy - $4.00
Date stamp (1967-02-07) on front cover of indexer's copy. On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- ..When Umar Walks the Earth! - Possible Severin colors per Nick Caputo, who notes that Marie has mentioned in interviews that she usually colored most of the work she drew.
- The Tribunal! - Part 7 of 9. See various issues of SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS for earlier appearances of Baron Strucker. 24 years had elapsed between Fury & Strucker's last meeting and this one. Shortly after this comic's publication, the 007 film YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE would reveal the identity of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s "Number One", Ernst Stavros Blofeld; Donald Pleasence's onscreen appearance, bald with an odd, monocle-shaped scar, is similar to Strucker's. In the introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of Shield Volume 2 Steranko says he took over the color chores with Strange Tales # 165.
- A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing! - Items; List of Marvel TV Stations; list of 26 M.M.M.S. members
- Umar Walks the Earth! - Part 10 of 22; part 6 of Umar sequence; part 1 of Zom sequence. Umar comes to Earth for 1st time.
- - Letters of comment from Wally Daniels; Shirley Gorman; Barry Brookner; and David Walker. Also includes Merry Marvel Marching Society info and coupon.
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