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Strange Tales , #74

Published: April 1960

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Issue Contents:
Beware the Hands of Hundu!
Credits
Story Notes

Title refers to the story "Beware the Hands of Hundu" but the art and dialogues refer to the story "Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!".

Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!

"When our summer assignments were handed out in our class on architecture,"

Storyline

While researching the origin of gargoyles for a class project, a student travels to a hidden valley in Tibet where he enters a huge stone cavern and meets Gorgolla (a gigantic stone gargoyle). Gorgolla explains that he and his army came to Earth from another world and have waited for centuries to strike and conquer humanity. He sends the signal, but is shocked when the gargoyles (his minions) come to Tibet and destroy him. The gargoyles explain they have become enamored by humanity and want to protect us, not conquer us.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7). Gorgolla's people are next seen, along with his father, in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974). Portions of this story are reprinted in that issue. While colored orange on the cover, Gorgolla is gray in the interior art. Gorgolla returns in Supernaturals #4 (1998).

The Whirlpool of Gairloch
Storyline

A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door.

Story Notes

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

Beware the Hands of Hundu
Storyline

A gypsy gives magic paints that make anything painted with them real to an arrogant painter. He uses them to get revenge on a lover who jilted him but eventually his ambitions lead to his death.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5, last page not numbered).

I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World
Storyline

A man travels to a frightening world of dreams and is attacked by dream beings. He discovers that the dream people believe his world is the source of nightmares and that its inhabitants are imaginary.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

When the Totem Walks!
Storyline

Two convicts escape and terrorize a nearby Indian tribe. The chieftain defends his tribe by using his magic to bring a totem pole to life to chase the two all the way back to prison.

Credits
Story Notes

Continues in next issue. Narrated in the third person. 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).