Strange Tales

Strange Tales was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics that began as a horror anthology before transitioning to a science fiction thriller anthology and finally a superhero series.
== Publication History ==
=== Magic and Monsters ===
The original series ran a total of 168 issues from June 1951 to May 1968. Initially a horror anthology, it launched from the company Atlas Comics, the company that would transform into Marvel Comics a decade later. The series followed the general formula of the then-popular EC Comics horror line, featuring gore and surprise endings. However, in 1954, there was a sea change with the rise of the Comics Code Authority, a regulation system within the comics industry designed to limit material such as gore, horror content and sexuality in comic books and the series had to adjust to make the material appropriate to that code. 
Around 1959, the series changed tone, more in line with the popularity of drive-in monster movies and featured stories with large monsters, many featuring art by Jack Kirby, as well as twist ending sci-fi tales with art by Don Heck, Paul Reiman and Scott Sinnott and often ending with a short Stan Lee/Steve Ditko tale that was often surreal and/or self-reflective. Many of the creatures and characters introduced in this era would later be retroactively introduced into the Marvel Universe, the shared continuity of tale primarily starring superheroes.
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Category:Horror Comics
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