Dates
- Cover date
- February 1961
- On sale
- September 28, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #81 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- The Scarecrow Walks! · 7 pages
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.
- Mystery Trip · 2 pages
Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.
- A Giant There Was! · 6 pages
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.
- I Went Too Far Back! · 5 pages
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.
- The Thing in the Cell! · 5 pages
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.
Publisher’s description
A landlord cheats poor farmers out of their land in order to sell it for nuclear tests.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)