Tales to Astonish #74

Dates

Cover date

December 1965

On sale

September 2, 1965

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #74 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition12¢ cover

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition10d [0-0-10 GBP] cover

  British

  Printed cover price 10d [0-0-10 GBP].

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• When Fails the Quest! · 12 pages

  Sub-Mariner battles The Faceless Ones to try to save Dorma while Krang stops a rebellion in Atlantis.

• The Wisdom of the Watcher! · 10 pages

  The Hulk fights the baddest alien in the galaxy over the Watcher's Ultimate Machine. After the battle, the Watcher allows Hulk to take it and he is teleported back to the Leader's lair. The Leader tries to use the machine which dispenses all of the Watcher's collected knowledge but even his big brain can't handle it and the strain kills him.

Characters

Reprinted in

Smash! (1966), Terrific! (1967), Incredible Hulk [King Size Special] (1968), Sub-Mariner Special (1971), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Hulk Pocket Book (1980), Essential Hulk (1999), Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner (2002), Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2003), The Incredible Hulk Omnibus (2008), Essential Sub-Mariner (2009), Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2009), Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner (2011), Incredible Hulk Epic Collection (2015), Namor, the Sub-Mariner Epic Collection (2021), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2021), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Namor, the Sub-Mariner (2022), Namor the Sub-Mariner Omnibus (2025)