Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Curious If True Strange Tales illustrated Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Strange Tales is a Marvel Comics anthology series. The title was revived in different forms on multiple occasions. Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S. H. I. E. L. D. made their debut in Strange Tales. The Marvel Comics series ran 168 issues, cover-dated June 1951 to May 1968. It began as a horror anthology from the company's 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics. Initially modeled after the gory morality tales of the popular and groundbreaking EC line of comics, Strange Tales became less outré with the 1954 establishment of the Comics Code, which prohibited graphic horror, as well as vampires, zombies and other classical monsters. The comic changed again with the return of industry stalwart Jack Kirby, the artist who had co-created Captain America for the company, then worked elsewhere for 17 years.