COMIC DETAILS
|
Comic Description:
|
Strange Tales 156 Signature
|
|
Grade:
|
9.4
|
|
Page Quality:
|
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
|
|
Certification #:
|
1410674003
|
|
Owner:
|
johnoj
|
SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Tribunal!"
Script: Jim Steranko
Pencils: Jim Steranko
Inks: Jim Steranko
Letters: Sam Rosen
Bronson is set to take Laura to a medical facility (the one on the Heli-Carrier being damaged in the earlier battle) in the "Dyna-Soar", a brand-new aircraft whose design is based and improved upon from the captured HYDRA saucer. No sooner does he depart than Fury's quarters are blasted to bits, apparently killing him! Bronson changes course and heads for "Hydra Island", an artificial, futuristic, hi-tech fortress somewhere in the Pacific, then resumes his guise as Supreme Hydra. He then announces to the world that he's placed a "Death Spore" bomb on board the Heli-Carrier, which will unleash a deadly plague upon the entire Earth and cannot be de-activated! Any country that surrenders within one hour will be spared its effects. He also plans to stage a fake "trial" for Laura, as an example to all who would defy him. Unknown to him, Fury is alive, having suspected Bronson from the start, and was hiding on board the Dyna-Soar, in order to discover HYDRA's plans and the location of their base. But after taking on several HYDRA thugs, Fury is captured, and on awakening, discovers the true identity of the Supreme Hydra is none other than Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, his old enemy from WW2.
"Umar Walks the Earth!"
Script: Marie Severin (co-plot); Stan Lee (co-plot, dialogue)
Pencils: Marie Severin
Inks: Marie Severin
Letters: Artie Simek
Umar arrives in NYC! The Ancient One sends Strange to a "world beyond all worlds," a "time beyond all time," to "the legendary Amphora," a large vase guarded by fiery demons, in order to free Zom, a being so powerful he was imprisoned by Eternity himself. Umar destroys Strange's house, then forcibly summons The Ancient One directly thru the center of the Earth itself. Strange unleashes Zom, then goads him into pursueing him to Earth. The Ancient One lures Umar to Stonehenge, the very spot on which he defeated Dormammu in "the dim, half-forgotten past." For the 2nd time, Strange surprises Umar-- but this time, she flees for her life, back to The Dark Dimension, where Zom can never find her! Zom had been bound by "the chains of living bondage" by Dormammu (before Eternity imprisoned him), and so he seeks vengeance. But with Umar gone, he turns his anger against Strange & his mentor.
Cover: Marie Severin
1st appearance of Zom
Signed by Jim Steranko on 6/18/16
Image is comic prior to signing
|
|
|