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"Face-to-Face With the Magic of Baron Mordo!"
Strange Tales
Title: "Face-to-Face With the Magic of Baron Mordo!"
Volume: 1
number: 111
Cover date: August, 1963
Cover price: .12
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Credits
Editor-in-Chief: Stan Lee
Writers: Stan Lee
Pencilers: Steve Ditko
Inkers: Steve Ditko
Cover artists: Jack Kirby
Dick Ayers
Letterers: Terry Szenics
Editors: Stan Lee
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"Face-to-Face With the Magic of Baron Mordo!" is the fourth story in issue #111 of the Marvel Comics anthology series Strange Tales. The story spotlights Master of the Mystic Arts, Doctor Strange, and introduces his arch-nemesis Baron Mordo. The issue also includes a Human Torch story by Stan Lee and H.E. Huntley entitled "Fighting to the Death With the Asbestos Man". This is followed by a two-page text story called "Masquerade" as well as a five-page science fiction story by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Matt Fox called "Beware -- The Machine!!" Strange Tales #11 carried an August, 1963 cover date and a cover price of 12¢ per copy.

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  • Job number: X-311
  • The Ancient One is still referred to only as the Master.

Reprints[]

The Doctor Strange story from this issue is reprinted in the following:

  • Essential Doctor Strange, Volume 1
  • Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts (Pocket Books and Simon & Shuster)
  • Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #4
  • Marvel Masterworks #23
  • Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #1
  • Marvel Tales #135

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