Strange Tales Vol 1 83

Strange Tales Vol 1 #83 Published April, 1961 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby Dick Ayers "From Out of the Black Pit Came... Grogg!" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Dick Ayers Editor Stan Lee "The Masquerade Party" Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Editor Stan Lee "The Menace of Shandu!" Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Strange Tales #82 Strange Tales #84

Appearing in "From Out of the Black Pit Came... Grogg!"

Featured Characters:

• Miklos Kozlov  (First appearance)

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• Colonel Vorcutsky

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• Grogg  (First appearance)

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• Soviet Union
• Bodavia (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "From Out of the Black Pit Came... Grogg!"

Atomic tests awaken an ancient dragon named Grogg. Grogg begins to terrorize a nearby village and Vorcutsky and Kozlov try to escape by plane. Grogg downs the plane and Vorcutsky tells the dragon that Kozlov was the one responsible for disturbing his rest. Hiding in a cave, Kozlov evaded Grogg's wrath by using a smoke grenade to obfuscate his escape.

Appearing in "The Masquerade Party"

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Synopsis for "The Masquerade Party"

A spoiled rich girl always pays everyone back for even the most trivial imagined slights. When someone takes away some man she's got her eye on, she resolves to throw a costume party at the same time so that no one will show up for her rival's party. A cruel and arrogant demon crashes the party and treats the guests like garbage and the spoiled rich girl thinks she's found true love at last. When the clock strikes midnight, asks the demon to unmask and he replies "What mask, my love?" She faints, and when she recovers she resolves to turn over a new leaf, but the reader sees that it was just the boyfriend of the woman who's party was ruined giving the spoiled girl a little of her own payback.

Appearing in "The Menace of Shandu!"

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Synopsis for "The Menace of Shandu!"

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Notes

Continuity Notes

• Originally, "From Out of the Black Pit Came... Grogg!" was set in an unnamed "remote Asian province." When it was reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #27, the story was edited so that Miklos was now Michael and the unnamed province was changed to Bodavia, a fictional communist nation created for Marvel's British reprint series. This retcon seems to have stuck as Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone #1 confirms the story's updated setting.

• Grogg and Miklos Kozlov next appear in Strange Tales #87.

Publication Notes

• "From Out of the Black Pit Came... Grogg!" is reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #27.

• "Masquerade Party" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #16.

• "The Menace of Shandu!" reprinted in Crypt of Shadows #17

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