Strange Tales #85 White Mountain Pedigree (Atlas, 1961) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages....

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Strange Tales #85 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Strange Tales #85

Return of Gargantus. Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art. Steve Ditko and Paul Reinman art. Stan Lee story.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Return of Gargantus!

Characters: Gargantus (sea monster)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: The Return of Gargantus!

Characters: Gargantus (sea monster); Bill; Anne; Frank

Synopsis: Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world. The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him.

Pages: 13.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gargantus" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13). Gargantus last appeared in issue #80 (January 1961); he next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

Title: New Glasses

Characters: Herbert; Mr. Blooper

Synopsis: A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

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

Title: The Man Who Fell!

Characters: Hans; Katrina; Albert

Synopsis: A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes that a chandelier above him is coming loose.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973)

Notes: This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #48 (December 1963) as "Kraddak" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Possible Lee plot and Lieber script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee solely. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: The Ape Man

Characters: Salty Gruner; Ape Man

Synopsis: A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit. Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (October 1974), | Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)

Notes: This story seems similar to "Gorilla Man" drawn by Robert Q. Sale in Men's Adventures (Marvel, 1950 series) #25 (March 1954). Possible Lee script per Nick Caputo's examination at his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	8	5	5	8	7	6	7	12	9	4	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	85
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	9	5	7	9	7	6	7	13	9	4	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	90

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