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Cover: Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers
Strange Tales #82
“The Thing Called...It!”
writer Stan Lee · writer Larry Lieber · artist Jack Kirby · inker Dick Ayers · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Artie Simek · cover Jack KirbyDick Ayers
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Full credits
writer Stan Lee
writer Larry Lieber
artist Jack Kirby
inker Dick Ayers
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Dick Ayers
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A scientist builds a creature to kill a rival, but it refuses to obey. Its creator turns the local people against it, and in trying to kill the creature, the scientist is killed and the thing’s mind is transferred to his body, freeing it to live as a man.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).