Strange Tales Vol 1 148

Strange Tales Vol 1 #148 Published September, 1966 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Bill Everett "Death Before Dishonor!" Writer Jack Kirby Penciler [[Jack Kirby Penciler1_1 =Don Heck|Jack Kirby Penciler1_1 =Don Heck]][[Category:Jack Kirby Penciler1_1 =Don Heck/Penciler]] Inker Don Heck Letterer Sam Rosen "The Origin of the Ancient One!" Writer Denny O'Neil Penciler Bill Everett Inker Bill Everett Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Strange Tales #147 Strange Tales #149

Appearing in "Death Before Dishonor!"

Featured Characters:

•  Colonel Nick Fury 

Supporting Characters:

• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  •  "Dum-Dum" Dugan 
  •  Jasper Sitwell 
  • Unnamed agents

Antagonists:

• A.I.M.
  •  Count Bornag Royale 
  • Unnamed agents

Items:

• Life-Model Decoy

Vehicles:

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
• A.I.M. Shuttle Transport
  
  

Synopsis for "Death Before Dishonor!"

Dugan is desperate and shattered when he thinks Fury is killed in a fire-bombing attack by A.I.M., only to discover it was a Life Model Decoy that got "killed". But the A.I.M. prisoners he wanted interrogated were killed, which frustrates Fury-- who, along with Dum Dum & Jasper, realize their movements are under video-surveillance by the enemy! Meanwhile, Count Royale and his A.I.M. cohorts are amazed at how advanced & convincing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s L.M.D.s are, far more advanced than their own chemical androids, and determine to steal one. A squad of A.I.M. men break into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s underground base to steal an L.M.D. Just as Royale realizes Fury knew about the surveillance cameras, Fury stuns the crowd by shattering a viewport and leaping thru it to his apparent death, but parachutes to safety.

Appearing in "The Origin of the Ancient One!"

Featured Characters:

•  Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) 

Supporting Characters:

•  Ancient One (Yao) 

Antagonists:

•  Kaluu  (First full appearance)

Other Characters:

• Hoggoth (Mentioned)
• Citizens of Kamar-Taj
• Misha (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
• Ragadorr (Mentioned) (Seven Rings of; Dimension of)

Locations:

• New York City
  • Kaluu's Cavern
• Himalayas
  • Kamar-Taj (First appearance)
• The Dimension Beyond the Edge of the Universe

Items:

• Cloak of Levitation
• Eye of Agamotto
• Book of the Vishanti
• Spells
  • Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
  • Rings of Raggadorr (Invoked)

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "The Origin of the Ancient One!"

As the Ancient One begins his tale of his past and his relationship with the mystical being known as Kaluu, Kaluu in his own realm having captured the Book of the Vishanti studies it.Finding nothing useful to him Kaluu banishes it.

Five centuries ago, in the Himalayan land of Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One (whose real name is never given) and Kaluu grew up together and studied magic. They cast a spell of prosperity on their village. Kaluu wanted to use his power to serve his own ego, so he hypnotized the other villagers. They crowned him king and followed him in an attack on a neighboring village. The watchful Ancient One finally spoke out, warning that the prosperity spell would be broken by this hostile act. Kaluu put him in stasis and forced him to witness the battle, the looting, and the enslavement of the other village. The Ancient One's prediction came true, and a plague struck the village. Kaluu fled into another dimension, breaking the stasis spell.

Back in the present, Strange learns that Dormammu's attack on Eternity loosened the boundaries of the multiverse, so Kaluu has escaped. Finishing his tale, the Ancient One warns his deciple to brace himself as he sense that Kaluu is about to attack.

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