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Strange Tales Annual #1

Marvel · Series began 1962 · [September] 1962

Dates

Cover date
[September] 1962
On sale
July 3, 1962
Pages
76

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, John Forteinks: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Bill Everett, John Fortecolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • I Unleashed Shagg upon the World! · 7 pages
  • I Come from the Shadow World! · 5 pages

    An invader from the shadow world is defeated by a room of lights rigged up by an electrician.

  • He Waits For Us in the Glacier! · 5 pages

    A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist he thinks it won't be much longer.

  • I Became a...Human Bomb! · 4 pages

    A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control.

  • Grottu, King of the Insects! · 6 pages

    A journalist and an archaeologist go to Africa and find an ant that has grown giant and gained super-intelligence due to an atomic test. The giant ant tries to lead an army of insects to world conquest, but is foiled when the humans use sugar to turn his ants against him.

  • I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist! · 6 pages
  • I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World! · 5 pages

    A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy.

  • The Stranger in Space! · 4 pages
  • I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension! · 7 pages

    An extradimensional smoke monster invades the Earth. It could have destroyed humanity, but an adventurer tricks it by blowing out the smoke from a lighter, making it think humans can destroy it.

  • I Found the Giant in the Sky! · 5 pages
  • Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!! · 6 pages

    A fleeing criminal in Transylvania hides in an abandoned house, but aliens from a parallel dimension appear to him. He is relieved to find they cannot hurt him, but instead they phase him into an invisible, immaterial state and leave him there forever.

  • I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men · 5 pages

    Narrated in the first person.

  • A Martian Walks Among Us! · 7 pages

    A man happens upon a Martian spy in human form scouting Earth for an invasion but cannot get the authorities to believe him. He tracks down and kills the Martian, revealing that he himself is a Venusian agent in disguise working to protect Earth.

Publisher’s description

Reprints: * Journey into Mystery vol. 1 #53, #55 & #59 * Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #7 & #9 * Tales to Astonish vol. 1 #1, #6 & #7 * Strange Tales vol. 1 # 73 & #76

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