Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #75

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Strange Tales #75

Taboo, a Swamp-Thing-like monster appears. Jack Kirby cover and art. Steve Ditko, Paul Reinman, Don Heck, and Dick Ayers art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Am Taboo!

Characters: Taboo

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp!

Characters: Lewis Conrad; Taboo (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp. The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (December 1975), | Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (March 1970)

Notes: Taboo next appears in issue #77 (October 1960). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-8, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Title: The Return of the Totem!

Characters: Totem; Bull Drago (cameo) Hunk (cameo)

Synopsis: The totem frightens the two convicts into a state of shock, but then goes on a rampage through the reservation and a nearby town. The chieftain concocts a potion to destroy the totem, and succeeds in stopping the monster, though at the cost of his own life.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (December 1975)

Notes: Continues from last issue. Narrated in the third person. Job number from Steve Grant, 2005-04-20 (Per Sandell ed.). Story is pages 11-14, 16-17 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: The Strange Stone

Characters: Johnny

Synopsis: Johnny finds a magic wishing stone, but wishes it away because magic would make life no fun.

Pages: 1.750

Letters: typeset

Notes: The first page of this story is printed between "Taboo! The Thing From the Murky Swamp!" and "The Return of the Totem!", while the second page is printed between "Doomsday!" and "I Made the Hulk Live". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Text story is pages 18, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: Doomsday!

Characters: Lynn; Walter

Synopsis: Two scientists accidentally release a gas that will kill all life on Earth. An unnatural wind disperses the gas, convincing one of the scientists of the other’s belief in a higher power.

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: I Made The Hulk Live

Characters: Albert Poole; Blake

Synopsis: A short and bitter scientist is obsessed with building a powerful giant robot body. He traps himself inside without the means to activate the robot, living out his life on the food which he'd stored inside.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #22 (September 1976)

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).

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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	0	0	0	2	0	3	4	4	5	6	8	6	3	8	4	3	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	4	4	6	7	8	6	3	8	4	3	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	66

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