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Cover: Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers

Strange Tales #85

Jun 1961 · Marvel · 0.10 USD
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Contains 3 stories
The Return of Gargantus!
13 pp · Horror-Suspense
Gargantus (sea monster)BillAnneFrank

In "The Return of Gargantus!" from Strange Tales #85, a new team of scientists awakens the ancient sea monster, now able to survive on land, setting it on a path to dominate the surface world. With the help of a father's old bathysphere, Jo, the son of the man who first discovered Gargantus, races to stop the beast before it’s too late.

The Man Who Fell!
5 pp · Horror-Suspense
HansKatrinaAlbert

In "The Man Who Fell!" from Strange Tales #85, the town's mayor, desperate to prove a gypsy seer wrong, locks himself in his basement to avoid the fate she foretold—being injured by a fall. As he lies bound, he watches in dread as a chandelier above him begins to sway, its chains groaning under unseen strain.

The Ape Man
5 pp · Horror-Suspense
Salty GrunerApe Man

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Full credits

writer Stan Lee
artist, inker Paul Reinman
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Dick Ayers

Reprints

↩ Reprints Spellbound #30 (1956)

Reprinted in Spellbound #27 (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense #15 (1964), Mystic #59 (1965), Where Monsters Dwell #24 (1973), Where Monsters Dwell #25 (1973), Giant-Size Werewolf #2 (1974), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby #1 (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus #1 (2019), Creepy Worlds #51, Misterios del Gato Negro #136, Uncanny Tales #35

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