Cover: Jack Kirby

Strange Tales Annual #1

Sep 1962 · Marvel · 0.25 USD

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In "I Unleashed Shagg upon the World!", a 1962 Marvel classic, a reckless journalist and an archaeologist uncover a bizarre consequence of an atomic test in Africa: a giant, super-intelligent ant with world-conquering ambitions. Written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, with dynamic art by Jack Kirby and inks by Bill Everett, this Annual features a bizarrely clever insect menace and a surprisingly sweet solution—sugar. The cover, also by Jack Kirby, captures the absurd scale of the threat in bold, iconic style.

Contains 13 stories

I Unleashed Shagg upon the World!

7 pp · Science Fiction

Shagg

I Come from the Shadow World!

5 pp · Science Fiction

shadow creatureCasey

He Waits For Us in the Glacier!

5 pp · Science Fiction

Anuxa

I Became a...Human Bomb!

4 pp · Horror-Suspense

Grottu, King of the Insects!

6 pp · Science Fiction

Frank [Ulysses Bloodstone] (earliest published appearance according to later continuity)Lynn Avery (only appearance)Kasenga (only appearance)Grottu (introduction, origin)

I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist!

6 pp · Horror-Suspense

Larry WintersRita WintersPoltergeist

I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!

5 pp · Horror-Suspense

The Stranger in Space!

4 pp

I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension!

7 pp · Horror-Suspense

DiabloUlysses Bloodstone (unnamed, identified in later retcon)

I Found the Giant in the Sky!

5 pp · Fantasy

Prof. Dunngiantprincess

Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!

6 pp · Horror-Suspense

GustavHans (only appearance for both)

I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men

5 pp · Science Fiction

Prof. George Ailen

A Martian Walks Among Us!

7 pp · Science Fiction

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Full credits

writer Stan Lee

writer Larry Lieber

artist Jack Kirby

inker Bill Everett

colorist Stan Goldberg

letterer Artie Simek

cover pencils, inks Jack Kirby

Reprints

↩ Reprints Tales to Astonish #1 (1959), Journey into Mystery #53 (1959), Journey into Mystery #55 (1959), Tales to Astonish #6 (1959), Tales of Suspense #7 (1960), Tales to Astonish #7 (1960), Strange Tales #73 (1960), Tales of Suspense #9 (1960), Journey into Mystery #59 (1960), Strange Tales #76 (1960), Strange Tales #78 (1960)

Reprinted in Spindelmannen #4/1974 (1974), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby #2 (2017)

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