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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published August 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. 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.

Cover Details - "I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Intruder!"

Characters Dragoom
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)

7 page story "I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!"

Characters Victor Cartwright; Dragoom (introduction, origin)
Synopsis A flaming alien monster terrorizes Earth. A movie director fools him by using special effects to fake the arrival of police from Vulcan in pursuit of the monster, frightening him away.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Dragoom next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (March 1970); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975)

2 page text story "The Pact"

Characters Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil
Synopsis A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (August 1952)

6 page story "Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!"

Characters Gustav; Hans
Synopsis A fugitive hides in an abandoned house, but aliens from another dimension appear to him. They cannot hurt him, but instead they phase him into an immaterial state and leave him there forever.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962); in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966)

5 page story "The Dummy and Me!"

Characters Hugo
Synopsis Some gangsters come for a ventriloquist who has unpaid gambling debts. They corner him in the alley and shoot him, not realizing that it was the puppet who made his decisions all along.
Genre occult
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Narrated by the dummy. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)

5 page story "I Found the Mad Universe!"

Characters Prof. Dark; Milton
Synopsis A scientist uses a powerful new microscope to discover an entire world existing at the sub-atomic level. He is horrified to find that this world, Earth, is just as barbaric and violent as his own.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.