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Issue: Strange Tales #77

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Publication Date: October 1960

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Issues: #77 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Strange Tales #77 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #77 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Taboo Returns!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Taboo

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: cover taken from interior splash, with alterations.

The Return of Taboo!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Dan; Susan; Taboo

Synopsis: After his apparent destruction, Taboo reconstitutes himself and runs amok. He is eventually stopped by the arrival of others from his world, who reveal that he is not an advance scout for invasion, but merely a deranged criminal.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-809

Notes: Taboo last appeared in issue #75 (June 1960). A replication of Taboo appears in Incredible Hulk Annual (Marvel, 1976 series) #5 (October 1976), but Taboo does not appear again until Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

Mystery Pupil

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely

Inker(s): Joe Maneely

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude

Synopsis: A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-382

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

I Am the Beast-Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Amos; Anne

Synopsis: A criminal transforms himself into a dog in order to escape from burglaries unnoticed. He must return home quickly or be stuck as a dog, but is picked up by a dog catcher and trapped in the pound.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-807

The Strange Magic of Master Khan!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Hawk Gormey; Master Khan (introduction)

Synopsis: A pirate steals the ship of an Asian sorcerer. The ship's owner curses the thieves, shrinking the ship and imprisoning them in a glass bottle.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-796

Notes: Master Khan next appears in an Iron Fist story in Marvel Premiere (Marvel, 1972 series) #24 (September 1975).

Am I the...Unhuman?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Gideon Burr

Synopsis: A scientist in builds a robot identical to himself, and programs it with his own memories. When robots are banned, the robot believes that it is the real person, and its creator the duplicate.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-806

Notes: Narrated by the robot.