Strange Tales 1951 #109 - 3.5 - $28.00

• First app: Circe

The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora?s Box for his own profit.

A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.

Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. The crew asks for chance to explain, but mission control breaks the communication as they cannot bear to listen to their pleas. What the space explorers were trying to say before their communication line was broken was that the life on the planet grants disease immunity and long life span.

A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times. When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a neanderthal.

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• The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box - The Sorcerer and his mansion in the country appears to be a tribute to Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) from the film Night of the Demon (1957). A woman who used "Pandora's Box" to commit crimes turned up in the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "Here Comes Trubble".
• The Comic - Text story with illustration.
• Earth Is Off-Limits! - Letters credit by Barry Pearl.
• Time Was... - Inks and letters credits by Barry Pearl; originally listed Larry Lieber (inks).