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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 81
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: February 1961
Volume: 1

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STRANGE TALES #81
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: The Scarecrow Walks! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction
Characters:Scarecrow (irradiated monster)


Story Title: The Scarecrow Walks! - comic story
Pages:7
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.


Story Title: Mystery Trip - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
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.


Story Title: A Giant There Was! - comic story
Pages:6
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.


Story Title: I Went Too Far Back! - comic story
Pages:5
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.


Story Title: The Thing in the Cell! - comic story
Pages:5
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.


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