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Issue: Strange Tales #74
Publication Date: April 1960
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Issues: #74 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 11/30/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose 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.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Beware the Hands of Hundu!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Gorgolla
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #35 [unnamed variant] published May 1975
as Gorgolla the Living Gargoyle! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title refers to the story "Beware the Hands of Hundu" but the art and dialogues refer to the story "Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!".
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Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): David Hartnell; Gorgolla (destroyed); Mr. Welles
First Line: When our summer assignments were handed out in our class on architecture,E
Synopsis: While researching the origin of gargoyles for a class project, a student travels to a hidden valley in Tibet where he enters a huge stone cavern and meets Gorgolla (a gigantic stone gargoyle). Gorgolla explains that he and his army came to Earth from another world and have waited for centuries to strike and conquer humanity. He sends the signal, but is shocked when the gargoyles (his minions) come to Tibet and destroy him. The gargoyles explain they have become enamored by humanity and want to protect us, not conquer us.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #1 published January 1970
as Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAstonishing Tales #22 [unnamed variant] published February 1974
as ...We, the Gargoyles! [Story on Interior Page(s)]3.75 pages only
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #35 [unnamed variant] published May 1975
as Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-614
Disclose Notes: Gorgolla's people are next seen, along with his father, in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974).
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The Whirlpool of Gairloch

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #14 published April 1953
was The Whirlpool of Gairloch [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: C-127
Disclose Notes: Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Beware the Hands of Hundu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #35 [unnamed variant] published May 1975
as Beware the Hands of Hundu [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-621
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I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #3 published January 1961
as I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-622
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When the Totem Walks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #10 [unnamed variant] published June 1975
as When the Totem Walks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #2 published January 1994
as When the Totem Walks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #1075 published ?
as Das Totem [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-604
Disclose Notes: Continues in next issue. Narrated in the third person.

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