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Issue: Strange Tales #81

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Publication Date: February 1961

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Issues: #81 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

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Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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2 Strange Tales #81 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #81 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Scarecrow Walks!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Scarecrow (irradiated monster)

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Pages: 1

The Scarecrow Walks!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Scarecrow (irradiated monster); Jarvis Cragstone; Albert Smith; Martha Smith

Synopsis: A landlord cheats poor farmers out of their land in order to sell it for nuclear tests. Radiation animates the farmers' abandoned scarecrow which tracks down the man and forces him to give his profits to the farmers before its life ebbs away.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-6

Notes: Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Mystery Trip

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely

Inker(s): Joe Maneely

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete

Synopsis: Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-266

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

A Giant There Was!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Joe Farrow

Synopsis: A criminal steals beans that grow into a beanstalk leading to the land of giants. He tries to rob a castle, but he is caught and imprisoned with other criminals, lured by the same beans to become slave laborers for the giant.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-9

Notes: Inspired by "Jack and the Beanstalk". Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

I Went Too Far Back!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Penciller(s): Paul Reinman

Inker(s): Paul Reinman

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Simon Burr

Synopsis: A scientist's assistant travels to the past with a gun to rule a pre-technology world. Instead he finds that time is a loop, and when he travels back too far he finds himself a thousand years in the future, helpless before the psychic powers of future humans.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-1

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Thing in the Cell!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Hans Vogez

Synopsis: A corrupt police chief uses fines to fund a giant prison in order to increase his prestige. He jails a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is an alien leader whose followers take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-26

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).