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Issue: Strange Tales #78
Publication Date: November 1960
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Issues: #78 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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 June 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:  
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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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A Martian Prowls Among Us!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Martian Walks Among Us!

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: science fiction
Synopsis: A man spots upon a Martian in human form scouting for an invasion. The police won’t believe him, so he finds and kills the spy himself, revealing that he is a Venusian in disguise working to protect Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as A Martian Walks Among Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #3 published May 1970
as A Martian Walks Among Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as A Martian Walks Among Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-864
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Trouble Bubble

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
Synopsis: A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #49 published September 1956
was Trouble Bubble [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-160
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Fantastic Menace of Mento the Mighty

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): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mento [Mr. Krupp]; Gorosaur
Synopsis: A scientist discovers his own innate psychic power and builds a machine to slowly enhance it. He is nearly omnipotent after more than a decade, but when his assistant betrays him he finds his muscles too atrophied to repair the device and his powers vanish.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-8??
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The Gargoyle!

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
Synopsis: An ugly man rejected by society applies for a job at a circus. It turns out to be a ruse by aliens who are uniformly gorgeous, and so want a man with an ugly face they find fascinating to marry their queen.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #3 published May 1970
as The Gargoyle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pp1–3, p4: panels 1, 4, 5–6, p5: panels 1, 3–6, reformatted; reformatted and abridged
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-865
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Dear Reader: What Would You Have Done if You Were the… Worm Man

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: science fiction
Character(s): Worm Man; Prof. Serak
Synopsis: A spy calling himself 'Worm Man' uses shrinking pills to easily discover military secrets. On a crucial mission, he is attacked by a rat and loses his growth pills, trapping him forever in his tiny form.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTower of Shadows #6 published July 1970
as Man in the Rat-Hole! [Story on Interior Page(s)]originally titled "The Worn Man!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-887

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