Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #76

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Strange Tales #76

Dragoom appearance. Prototype issue (Human Torch). Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover. Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, and Joe Maneely art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Intruder!

Characters: Dragoom

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!

Characters: Victor Cartwright; Dragoom (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (March 1970), | Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975)

Notes: Dragoom next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Title: The Pact

Characters: Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil

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

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely

Inks: Joe Maneely

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!

Characters: Gustav; Hans

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966), | Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962), | Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (June 1975)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: The Dummy and Me!

Characters: Hugo

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)

Notes: Narrated by the dummy. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: I Found the Mad Universe!

Characters: Prof. Dark; Milton

Synopsis: 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.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975)

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). Possible Stan Lee script per Nick Caputo's examination at his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html

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