Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #74

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Strange Tales #74

First Gorgolla appearance. Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art. Steve Ditko, Paul Reinman, and Don Heck art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Beware the Hands of Hundu!

Characters: Gorgolla

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Title refers to the story "Beware the Hands of Hundu" but the art and dialogues refer to the story "Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!".

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!

Characters: David Hartnell; Gorgolla

Synopsis: A student finds that gargoyles are really a hidden alien race preparing to conquer the world but when their leader summons them they turn on him, having learned to appreciate humanity.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975), | Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970), | Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974)

Notes: Gorgolla's people are next seen, along with his father, in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974). 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 Whirlpool of Gairloch

Characters: John Potts; McPherson; Capt. Breslow

Synopsis: A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

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

Title: Beware the Hands of Hundu

Characters: Hundu; Anne Walker; Mark Walker

Synopsis: A gypsy gives magic paints that make anything painted with them real to an arrogant painter. He uses them to get revenge on a lover who jilted him but eventually his ambitions lead to his death.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 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 5, last page not numbered).

Title: I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World

Characters: Mr. Brown; Dr. Ethan Lindley; Kun

Synopsis: A man travels to a frightening world of dreams and is attacked by dream beings. He discovers that the dream people believe his world is the source of nightmares and that its inhabitants are imaginary.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: 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: When the Totem Walks!

Characters: Bull Drago; Hunk; Totem (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: Two convicts escape and terrorize a nearby Indian tribe. The chieftain defends his tribe by using his magic to bring a totem pole to life to chase the two all the way back to prison.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

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

Notes: Continues in next issue. Narrated in the third person. 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).

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