Strange Tales
#87
(August 1961)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-05-09
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
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 supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Return of Grogg!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Characters
- Grogg
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
in 
![Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (1951 series) #87 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/952/w100/952189.jpg?-909405202840288184)
The Return of...Grogg!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-237
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Characters
- Miklos Koslov; Ivan Grotsky; Grogg
- Synopsis
- Koslov is sent back to Russia as a spy, and discovers that the dragon Grogg is still on the loose. He lures Grogg into a Soviet rocket and launches it on its mission to Mars, knowing that if the Soviets ever travel to Mars they will find an enraged dragon.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Grogg" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13). Grogg last appeared in issue #83 (April 1961); his next published appearance is in Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (January 2005), while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
Peril on Paper
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-213
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jon Randall; Hannes Bache
- Synopsis
- An artist alters a matter transmitter to create images out of the human imagination, but more than just the image of the imagined monster is created.
- Reprints
-
from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #15 (December 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Lighthouse from Nowhere!
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
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-239
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A lighthouse appears by a village, but their teacher feels they shouldn’t use it unearned and destroys it. They build a new one, never knowing that the first was a beacon for an alien invasion, now aborted.
- Reprints
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #24 (July 1973)
-
in Thor e i Vendicatori (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #145 (2 Novembre 1976) - in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Macabre Mirror!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed as Heck)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed as Heck)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-238
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Carlotta
- Synopsis
- A greedy duke taxes his people into poverty. When he ignores a gypsy's warnings and tries to seize her ancient mirror he finds himself imprisoned within it forever, freeing his subjects.
- Reprints
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (June 1973)
-
Indexer Notes
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 Return of Grogg!
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1.
The Return of...Grogg!
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2.
Peril on Paper
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3.
The Lighthouse from Nowhere!
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4.
The Macabre Mirror!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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