Strange Tales
#81
[British]
(February 1961)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 9d [0-0-9 GBP]
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom with replaced cover price.
This issue is a variant of Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #81.
This issue is a variant of Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #81.
The Scarecrow Walks!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Scarecrow (irradiated monster)
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
in ![Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #81 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/952/w200/952193.jpg?8514909335203013466)
The Scarecrow Walks!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-6
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
Mystery Trip
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-266
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
-
from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #46 (August 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
A Giant There Was!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-9
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
Indexer 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!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-1
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
Indexer 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!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-26
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #13 - in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974) [as "The Thing in Cell 13"] which is reprinted
-
in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #35 ([Juillet 1974]) -
in Thor (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #v2#23 (Agosto 1976) - in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Lee script per an examination at Nick Caputo's blog:
http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Scarecrow Walks!
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1.
The Scarecrow Walks!
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2.
Mystery Trip
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3.
A Giant There Was!
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4.
I Went Too Far Back!
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5.
The Thing in the Cell!
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- David Bruce
- Steve Coates
- Jay Flash
- Jim Stangas
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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