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Issue: Strange Tales #75
Publication Date: June 1960
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Issues: #75 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in January 1960. 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 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.
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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:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In6
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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I Am Taboo!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Taboo
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lewis Conrad; Taboo (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp. The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #2 published March 1970
as Taboo! The Thing From the Murky Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #13 published December 1975
as Taboo! The Thing from the Murky Swamp [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-673
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The Return of the Totem!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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): Totem; Bull Drago (cameo) Hunk (cameo)
Synopsis: The totem frightens the two convicts into a state of shock, but then goes on a rampage through the reservation and a nearby town. The chieftain concocts a potion to destroy the totem, and succeeds in stopping the monster, though at the cost of his own life.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #13 published December 1975
as The Return of the Totem [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #4 published March 1994
as The Return of the Totem! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-672
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The Strange Stone

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Johnny
Synopsis: Johnny finds a magic wishing stone, but wishes it away because magic would make life no fun.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #41 published January 1956
was The Strange Stone [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-401
Disclose Notes: The first page of this story is printed between "Taboo! The Thing From the Murky Swamp!" and "The Return of the Totem!", while the second page is printed between "Doomsday!" and "I Made the Hulk Live". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Text story is pages 18, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Doomsday!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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): Lynn; Walter
Synopsis: Two scientists accidentally release a gas that will kill all life on Earth. An unnatural wind disperses the gas, convincing one of the scientists of the other’s belief in a higher power.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-666
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Shares the last page of "The Strange Stone". Average sales not printed.
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I Made The Hulk Live

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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): Albert Poole; Blake
Synopsis: A short and bitter scientist is obsessed with building a powerful giant robot body. He traps himself inside without the means to activate the robot, living out his life on the food which he'd stored inside.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #22 published September 1976
as I Created Grutan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "I Created Grutan!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-665

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