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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 73
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: February 1960
Volume: 1

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STRANGE TALES #73
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: Grottu! King of the Insects! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Grottu


Story Title: Grottu, King of the Insects! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Frank [Ulysses Bloodstone] (earliest published appearance according to later continuity); Lynn Avery; Kasenga; Grottu (introduction, origin)
Synopsis:A journalist and an archaeologist go to Africa and find an atomically mutated giant ant with super-intelligence. The giant ant tries to lead an army of insects to world conquest, but is foiled when the humans use sugar to turn his ants against him.


Story Title: I Saw the End of the World! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Prof. Egen
Synopsis:A scientist builds a time machine and uses it to travel into the future against the advice of his peers. He finds that time is an infinite loop, and when he reaches his own time his memories disappear and he is once more building a time machine.


Story Title: The Tree - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Wally Hadley
Synopsis:When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.


Story Title: I Was Captured by the Mole Men! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Dan; Casey
Synopsis:A subway train full of people is hijacked and held by a subterranean race. The police fight the creatures and retrieve the train, only to discover that the creatures were actually peaceful.


Story Title: I Am a Walking Time Bomb - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Robot 235
Synopsis:A robot is sent to Earth by alien conquerers to force them to surrender or be destroyed. The finer qualities of humanity convince the robot decides to destroy his creators' world instead.


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