Strange Tales , #81 British

Published: February 1961

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Issue Contents:
The Scarecrow Walks!
Credits
The Scarecrow Walks!
Storyline

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 Notes

Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Mystery Trip
Storyline

Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.

Credits
Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

A Giant There Was!
Storyline

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.

Credits
Story 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!
Storyline

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 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!
Storyline

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.

Credits
Story 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).