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Issue: Strange Tales #77
Publication Date: October 1960
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Issues: #77 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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in May 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.

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 In15
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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Assets0
 
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Taboo Returns!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as Taboo Returns!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #5 published September 1970
as Mankind Is Doomed! Taboo Lives Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]heavily retouched
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as Taboo Returns!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #190 published January 1979
as Taboo Returns!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: cover taken from interior splash, with alterations.
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The Return of Taboo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as The Return of Taboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #5 published September 1970
as The Return of Taboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as The Return of Taboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-809
Disclose 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).
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Mystery Pupil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #52 published October 1956
was Mystery Pupil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-382
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Am the Beast-Man!

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): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #21 published January 1962
as I Am the Beast-Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #10 [unnamed variant] published June 1975
as I Am the Beast-Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-807
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The Strange Magic of Master Khan!

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): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as The Strange Magic of Master Khan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #5 published September 1970
as The Strange Magic of Master Khan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as The Strange Magic of Master Khan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #10 published June 1975
as The Strange Magic of Master Khan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-796
Disclose Notes: Master Khan next appears in an Iron Fist story in Marvel Premiere (Marvel, 1972 series) #24 (September 1975).
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Am I the...Unhuman?

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): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as Am I the ... Unhuman? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as Am I the... Unhuman? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-806
Disclose Notes: Narrated by the robot.

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