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Strange Tales #76

Marvel · Series began 1951 · August 1960

Dates

Cover date
August 1960
On sale
March 28, 1960
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #76 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Steve Ditkoinks: Dick Ayers, Joe Maneely, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader! · 7 pages

    A flaming alien monster terrorizes Earth. A movie director fools him by using special effects to fake the arrival of police from Vulcan in pursuit of the monster, frightening him away.

  • The Pact · 2 pages

    A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.

  • Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!! · 6 pages

    A fugitive hides in an abandoned house, but aliens from another dimension appear to him. They cannot hurt him, but instead they phase him into an immaterial state and leave him there forever.

  • The Dummy and Me! · 5 pages

    Some gangsters come for a ventriloquist who has unpaid gambling debts. They corner him in the alley and shoot him, not realizing that it was the puppet who made his decisions all along.

  • I Found the Mad Universe! · 5 pages

    A scientist uses a powerful new microscope to discover an entire world existing at the sub-atomic level. He is horrified to find that this world, Earth, is just as barbaric and violent as his own.

Reprinted in

Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Spellbound (1960), Uncanny Tales (1973), Crypt of Horror (2005), Strange Tales Annual (1962), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Vault of Evil (1973), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), 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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