Strange Tales
#72
(December 1959)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-07-31
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
I Fought the Colossus!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-463
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Prof. Reynolds; "Colossus" supercomputer
- Synopsis
- An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. Humanity turns on the computer and destroys the robot, only to find that it was intended to replace the supercomputer, which breaks down, leaving humanity without its intelligence.
- Reprints
-
in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #1086 -
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #6 (1960) -
in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #4 ([April 1960]) -
in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (May 1970) - in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (September 1975)
- in Planet of the Apes (Marvel UK, 1974 series) #110 (November 24, 1976)
-
in La Mujer Araña (Novedades, 1982 series) #9 (Mayo 20 de 1982) - in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Weather Man
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-931
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay
- Synopsis
- The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #139 (October 1955)
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #6 (1960)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-448
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Luther Storme; Jonah Morgan
- Synopsis
- A cruel sea captain greedily pursues the flying Dutchman. He catches the ship, but is trapped there as a ghost, replacing the former ghost, who now can go free.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #6 (1960)
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #4 ([April 1960])
- in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #25 (November 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Am the Abominable Snowman!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-464
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Charles Duntmore
- Synopsis
- A thief steals a ruby from a Himalayan retreat, but a curse on the stone makes him intensely cold and forces him to wear heavy furs that keep him from returning to civilization.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This is a retelling of "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958). Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-467
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Dirk
- Synopsis
- An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessable pit of quicksand.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #6 (1960)
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #6 ([October 1960])
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975)
-
in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #16 (Enero 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
I Entered the...Doorway to Doom!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-459
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A Russian farmer becomes a gold miner and uncovers a doorway into a dimension of malevolent beings. Soviet soldiers trying to rob him run afoul of the creatures, and the man decides to threaten to open the portal to force reform.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
I Fought the Colossus!
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1.
I Fought the Colossus!
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2.
Weather Man
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3.
I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!
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4.
I Am the Abominable Snowman!
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5.
I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!
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6.
I Entered the...Doorway to Doom!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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