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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published April 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in November 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. 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.

Cover Details - "Gorgolla the Living Gargoyle!"

Characters Gorgolla
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)

7 page story "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.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
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.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970); in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975); in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974) [only 3.75 pages reprinted]

2 page text story "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.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #14 (April 1953)

6 page story "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.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)

5 page story "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.
Genre occult
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "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.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Continues in next issue. Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975); in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)