Strange Tales , #72

Published: December 1959

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Issue Contents:
I Fought the Colossus!
Story Notes

Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers ?.

I Fought the Colossus!
Storyline

An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. Humanity turns on the computer and destroys the robot, only to find that it was intended to replace the supercomputer, which breaks down, leaving humanity without its intelligence.

Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Weather Man
Storyline

The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.

Credits
Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!
Storyline

A cruel sea captain greedily pursues the flying Dutchman. He catches the ship, but is trapped there as a ghost, replacing the former ghost, who now can go free.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

I Am the Abominable Snowman!
Storyline

A thief steals a ruby from a Himalayan retreat, but a curse on the stone makes him intensely cold and forces him to wear heavy furs that keep him from returning to civilization.

Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. This is a retelling of "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958). Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!
Storyline

An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessable pit of quicksand.

Credits
Story Notes

Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

I Entered the... Doorway to Doom!
Storyline

A Russian farmer becomes a gold miner and uncovers a doorway into a dimension of malevolent beings. Soviet soldiers trying to rob him run afoul of the creatures, and the man decides to threaten to open the portal to force reform.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).