Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) UK Edition comic books 1961

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "What? What? What Was Gargantus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; A deep sea explorer encounters a giant reptile that follows him back to the surface; The creature explores the surface, causing panic. "Time Machine" text story. "The Things from Dimension X!", art by Don Heck; A scientist successfully creates a link to the dimension Electra only to find the inhabitants bent on conquest. "The Door They Dare Not Open!", art by Paul Reinman; A prison warden treats inmates with kindness, and relies on an honor system to prevent them from opening the one closed door. "Trapped in the Room of Shadows," art by Steve Ditko; A millionaire looks for magical wishing stones with which he hopes to help all humanity; His greedy guide tries to steal the first stone, but only succeeds in using up its power and trapping himself. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Scarecrow Walks!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A landlord cheats poor farmers out of their land in order to sell it for nuclear tests; Radiation animates the farmers' abandoned scarecrow. "Mystery Trip," art by Joe Maneely; Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating. "A Giant There Was!", art by Don Heck; 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. "I Went Too Far Back!", art by Paul Reinman; 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. "The Thing in the Cell!", art by Steve Ditko; 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. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Thing Called...It!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A scientist builds a creature to kill a rival, but it refuses to obey; Its creator turns the local people against it. "The Utopia" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The World Beyond," art by Steve Ditko; A scientist creates a pill to shrink himself to subatomic size, convinced that whole other worlds exist at microscopic levels; His pill works, and he vanishes into a whole new world called Earth. "Fangs of the Monster," art by Don Heck; A cruel hunter pursues a sea monster for sport, but finds himself at its mercy; The creature is intelligent and telepathically berates the hunter. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A reluctant Soviet scientist wakes the ancient dragon Grogg with atomic tests; The dragon attacks the soldiers and gives the scientist the opportunity to defect to the US. "Make a Wish" text story. "Masquerade Party," art by Steve Ditko; A beautiful but vicious socialite spoils the plans of an old rival by throwing a masquerade party; She is scared by her rivals husband, who tricks her into thinking he is a demon. "The Menace of Shandu!", art by Don Heck; A boy finds a magic book in a used bookstore and summons a genie, which vows to torture him after granting his wish; He wishes for everything to be restored to before he went to the bookshop. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers (prototype of the X-Men's Magneto); A strong man is exploited and abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show; His size makes him the perfect pilot for an experimental space flight, on which he gains magnetic powers. "The Inventor" text story. "Twelve Silent Men!", art by Paul Reinman; A greedy lawyer steals a time machine in order to profit from knowledge from the future; Once there he is tried for stealing the machine. "They Met on Mars!", art by Steve Ditko; Two beings in grotesque space suits fight on Mars; One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both humans: one from the US, one from the USSR. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Return of Gargantus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world; The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him. "New Glasses" text story. "The Man Who Fell!", art by Paul Reinman; A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true; He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this. "The Ape Man," art by Steve Ditko; A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit; Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Created Mechano!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it; They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away. "Discovery" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Georgie's Globe!", art by Steve Ditko; A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world; When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a faraway dead world explodes. "Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Sol Brodsky; Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict; A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Return of...Grogg!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "Peril on Paper" text story. "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!", art by Steve Ditko; A lighthouse appears by a village, but their teacher feels they shouldnt 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. "The Macabre Mirror!", art by Don Heck; 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. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints; The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters. "Snowstorm" text story. "The Lifeless Man!", art by Steve Ditko; A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys; His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle. "Punishment!", art by Don Heck; An advanced civilization sends a mugger to a prison planet; Only a few moments on this world full of war, crime and disease make him go straight in order to avoid ever again coming back to Earth. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. 1st appearance of Fin Fang Foom in "Fin Fang Foom!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion; He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet. "The Future" text story. "The Green Things!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A wealthy retiree keeps a magnificent greenhouse, where he talks to the plants; When a burglar tries to kill him, his plants come to life and stop the intruder, saving their friend's life. "The Touch of Midas!", art by Paul Reinman; A greedy man locates the source of Midass power, planning to stop the undesirable effects with gloves; He gains the power but finds that his gloves turn to gold, dooming him to the same fate as Midas. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. "Orrgo... The Unconquerable!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth; He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice. "Special Sale" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "A Thousand Years Later...," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated; When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman. "The Inhuman!", art by Don Heck; In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human; The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot. "Germ Warfare," art by Paul Reinman; A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat; The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Sacrifice!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; An astronaut sent to Mars encounters a telepathic plant that destroyed all life on Mars and forces him to take it to Earth; The man kills himself by blowing up the spaceship and stranding the plant in space. "Strange Mission" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Coming of the Giants," art by Paul Reinman; Alien giants menace New York, but retreat at token resistance; The people find a projector and decide that the aliens' giant size was an illusion. "The Mask of Morgumm!", art by Don Heck; A baby-faced criminal gets an ugly mask to disguise himself and intimidate people; When he removes the mask he finds that it has made his face just as ugly as the mask and so easily recognizable. "The Warning!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A man frantically tries to convince people in a park that he saw a statue move; When he is unsuccessful he is satisfied, since now he knows that his alien people's plan to infiltrate Earth with soldiers disguised as statues will work. 36 pgs., full color.