Strange Tales 1951 #143 - 5.0 - $11.00
SHIELD HQ is taken over by Mentallo & The Fixer who hold Fury prisoner. Tony Stark takes command of the combat unit, preparing his Neutralizer while the ESP Division is unable to pick up Fury's thoughts. Meanwhile the villains attach a miniature H-Bomb to Fury's wrists and remove the mind-control mask. Fury is able to send a signal to the ESP team allowing SHIELD to retaliate and Stark's Neutralizer dissolves the H-Bomb. Mentallo & The Fixer are captured with the help of SHIELD's Metronome Unit and the threat of Mentallo's powers is wiped out by the ESP division.
Strange hides his bound body in a rooftop water tank, as The Demon & his men search for him. At their HQ, Strange retrieves his Cloak Of Levitation, and uses it to capture one of Mordo's men. But his body has been found by the witch. The complex cat-and-mouse game continues until Strange finally regains control of his body and Amulet, and he hypnotizes Mordo's minions into forgetting all they know of black magic. Now he is free again to focus on the remaining threat of Dormammu, and the missing Clea...
On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- To Free a Brain Slave - Part 3 of 3. Fixer mentions the H-Bomb was supplied by "THEM". Without their helmets, The Fixer & Mentallo bear a striking resemblance to DC's Lex Luthor & Brainiac!
- More Mirthful, Monumental, Mind-Staggaring Memoranda From Your Marvel Madmen! - M.M.M.S. order blank; items; Let's Meet 26 more M.M.M.S. Members!; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
- With None Beside Me! - Part 14 of 17. 1st early DR. STRANGE story never reprinted until 1978.
- - Letters from Dan O'Leary, Jeff Weiselberg, and Robert Krug with an accompanying illustration.
- Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation - Total copies printed (average in last 12 months): 380992. Total copies printed (issue nearest to filing date): 455625. Total paid circulation (average in last 12 months): 230285. Total paid circulation (issue nearest to filing date): 299425. Total distribution (average in last 12 months): 230345. Total distribution (issue nearest to filing date): 299485. Office use, left-over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing (average in last 12 months): 150647. Office use, left-over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing (issue nearest to filing date): 156140. Filing Date: October 1, 1965.
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