Strange Tales #72
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- December 1959
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Black & white
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/15414
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue contents
Cover
I Fought the Colossus!
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Characters
- "Colossus" robot
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers ?.
1Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-463
- Characters
- Prof. Reynolds; "Colossus" supercomputer
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?
Larry Lieber (script) ? - Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
All Star Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #4 ([April 1960?]) — I Fought the Colossus
-
Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (September 1975) — I Fought the Colossus!
Synopsis
An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. Humanity turns on the computer and destroys the robot, only to find that it was intended to replace the supercomputer, which breaks down, leaving humanity without its intelligence.
Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
2Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- G-931
- Characters
- Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay
Credits
- Author
- Art
- Joe Maneely
- Letters
- typeset
Synopsis
The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.
Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
3Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
- Code
- T-448
- Characters
- Luther Storme; Jonah Morgan
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?
Larry Lieber (script) ? - Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #25 (November 1976) — I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!
Synopsis
A cruel sea captain greedily pursues the flying Dutchman. He catches the ship, but is trapped there as a ghost, replacing the former ghost, who now can go free.
Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
4Featuring
- Genre
- Horror-suspense
- Code
- T-464
- Characters
- Charles Duntmore
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?
Larry Lieber (script) ? - Art
- Paul Reinman
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Synopsis
A thief steals a ruby from a Himalayan retreat, but a curse on the stone makes him intensely cold and forces him to wear heavy furs that keep him from returning to civilization.
Notes
Narrated in the first person. This is a retelling of "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958). Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
5Featuring
- Genre
- Jungle
- Code
- T-467
- Characters
- Dirk
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?
Larry Lieber (script) ? - Art
- John Forte
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
All Star Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #6 (October 1960) — I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!
Synopsis
An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessable pit of quicksand.
Notes
Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
6Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-459
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
Synopsis
A Russian farmer becomes a gold miner and uncovers a doorway into a dimension of malevolent beings. Soviet soldiers trying to rob him run afoul of the creatures, and the man decides to threaten to open the portal to force reform.
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).
Notes
Distributed to newstands in July 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered. 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.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.