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CATALOG RECORD

Strange Tales #72

Marvel · Series began 1951 · December 1959

Dates

Cover date
December 1959
On sale
July 31, 1959
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, John Forte, Steve Ditkoinks: Christopher Rule, Steve Ditko, Joe Maneely, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, John Fortecolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • I Fought the Colossus! · 5 pages

    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.

  • Weather Man · 2 pages

    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.

  • I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship! · 5 pages

    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.

  • I Am the Abominable Snowman! · 4 pages

    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.

  • I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard! · 4 pages

    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.

  • I Entered the... Doorway to Doom! · 5 pages

    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.

Publisher’s description

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.

Reprinted in

Spellbound (1960), All Star Adventure Comic (1959), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Chamber of Chills (1972), Uncanny Tales (1973), Crypt of Shadows (1973), Giant-Size Man-Thing (1974), Planet of the Apes (1974), Monster Menace (1993), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)

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