Strange Tales #81

(February 1961)

The Scarecrow Walks! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-6

Content Information

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.

Keywords:

monsters

Mystery Trip (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-266

Content Information

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)

Reprint Note before Migration:

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #46 (August 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

A Giant There Was! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-9

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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.

Indexer Notes

Inspired by "Jack and the Beanstalk".

I Went Too Far Back! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-1

Content Information

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.

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

The Thing in the Cell! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-26

Content Information

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 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) #23 (Agosto 1976)

Reprint Note before Migration:

• in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974) [as "The Thing in Cell 13"]