STRANGE TALES venc: i TRAPPED ANG. HELPLESS ON THEyi ‘STRANGE TALES featuring WARLOCK is published hy MARVEL COMICS GROLIP, OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 575 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y, 10022. Published bi-monthly. Copyright ©1975 by Marval Comics Group. A Division of Cadence Industries. Al rghts resarvad 878 Nedicen Avenue, N.Y.,NY. 10022. Vol. 1, No. 179, Aoril, 1975 issue. Price 25é per copy in the U.S. and Canada. Subscription rate $3.50 for 12 sues. Canada $4.25. Foreign, $5.50. Mo tnulority betwean any of the names, charactors, persons, and/or inatituton® in thi magazine with those of any living oF ‘dead. parson or inetivution is tended, and any such similarity which may exist purely co al. Printed in the Unived States of Anteria,aay As 1270 Gaebirou TW | .mesuore [now Mad T HOW HAD I7 Ait STARTED? WELL, ay. SENT AWE! OF THe Come To SucH | THAT's siubiz ENOUGH TO AN- 4 Sire? HaD| SWER. 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HE'S LEADING A rian He SHE 5 es [That puts anewor0)) [zm areaio THERE wikt BE THIS WARLOCKS, Wo Gasciuc oF persons WELL, You Kuow WHAT [sO DO, stices! SEAL |THE Baie avo RELE Ace THE VGAS INTO IT! THE TIME HAD COME FOR MIE TO. LUE UB TO MY GIVEN WAMELA 1S SHADOW! WARLOCKS HOME 2 MIS MOVEMENTS, THOSE OF THE WIND! His CODt, SILENCE! His VIRTUE, SURPRISE? a SBS]CAPTAIN AUTOLYCLIS HAD HARD, WELL ~ TRAIN RIORS FOR A CREW. STILL, THEY WERE STIS ATESS PRLS NEL TS HER PUB IGE “SESH ee TUEL WEE 18 GONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGEBECAUSE THEY, ARE KING. “HOM TO 00 SO! BUT, TAM A, | TaN HAE AN ROE, oe 1 AM MORE THAN YOUR MATCH, KAIGHT OF THE Ai GRIM FRIEND! TLL MAKE ASA Biack sour REALL T HAVE BEEN GIVEN. DEATH AS AANLESS AS POSSIBLE! THE COMBA A TRAINING J: IN THE GALAXY-- = = IN ADDITION. TO SPECIAL X-POWERS, SUCH AS. I, MASSIVE STRENGTH, HIGHLY ZA OEVELOPED SENSES AND. — ELECTRIC REFLEXES! “THEN I PITY YOU, AUTOLYCUS? 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