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Issue: Strange Tales #81
Publication Date: February 1961
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Issues: #81 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered.

Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Scarecrow Walks!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #13 published ?
as The Scarecrow Walks! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Scarecrow Walks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-6
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
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Mystery Trip

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #46 published August 1956
was Mystery Trip [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-266
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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A Giant There Was!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-9
Disclose Notes: Inspired by "Jack and the Beanstalk". Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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I Went Too Far Back!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-1
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Thing in the Cell!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #5 published August 1974
as The Thing in Cell 13 [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Thing in Cell 13"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-26
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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