Issue | #76 |
Published | August 1960 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Dragoom |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
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. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
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. |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (March 1970); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975) |
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. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (August 1952) |
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. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962); in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966) |
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. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Narrated by the dummy. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975) |
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. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |