Strange Tales Vol 1 87

Strange Tales Vol 1 #87 Published August, 1961 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby Dick Ayers Stan Goldberg Artie Simek "The Return of... Grogg!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Dick Ayers Colorist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee "Peril on Paper" Letterer Typeset Editor Stan Lee "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Colorist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee "The Macabre Mirror!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Colorist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Strange Tales #86 Strange Tales #88

Appearing in "The Return of... Grogg!"

Featured Characters:

• Miklos Kozlov (Final appearance) (Main story and recap)

Supporting Characters:

• Ivan Grotsky

Antagonists:

•  Grogg  (Main story and recap)

Other Characters:

• Soviet Army (Recap)
  • Colonel Fedor Vorcutsky (Voice) (Recap)
• USAF (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Dragons
• Humans

Locations:

• Earth (Main story and recap)
  • Asia (Recap)
    • Russia (Main story and recap)
      • Soviet Union (Main story and recap)
    • Bodavia (Recap)
  • North America
    • United States of America
• Mars

Vehicles:

• Russian Rocket
  
  

Synopsis for "The Return of... Grogg!"

Grogg, from Strange Tales #83, returns in this story and our hero from last time discovers the communists building a spaceship large enough to take a thousand troops to Mars in order to threaten the planet with atomic blackmail. A farmer sympathetic to freedom fighters creates a diversion that allows the hero to launch the spaceship prematurely but the farmer states that the threat still exists, because they will just build another one eventually. Our protagonist says that he knows that, and that is why he made a small snow figure of Grogg and attracted the beast's attention and used the snow figure to cast a Grogg-like shadow upon the spaceship. The curious Grogg entered the craft and was blasted off to Mars. When the Soviets eventually build another one and make their way to Mars, they're going to find a maddened Grogg waiting for them.

Appearing in "Peril on Paper"

• Appearances not yet listed
  
  

Synopsis for "Peril on Paper"

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Appearing in "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!"

Featured Characters:

• School Teacher (Unnamed)

Supporting Characters:

• Fishermen

Antagonists:

• Aliens

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unidentified alien species

Locations:

• Sol
  • Earth
    • Scotland
      • Village (Unnamed)

Items:

• Invasion Beacon

Vehicles:

• Alien Spacecraft
  
  

Synopsis for "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!"

Hostile aliens plant a beacon to indicate the attack site for an invasion force and the local villagers mistake it for a lighthouse. The local school teacher has strong feelings that the people should build their own lighthouse, and so he rows out to the beacon with a bundle of dynamite and blows it up, unknowingly canceling the alien's invasion plans.

Appearing in "The Macabre Mirror!"

Featured Characters:

• Duke (Unnamed)

Antagonists:

• Carlotta

Other Characters:

• Villagers
  • Hans

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Sheep (Mentioned)
• Chickens (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Earth
  • Europe

Items:

• Enchanted Mirror
  
  

Synopsis for "The Macabre Mirror!"

A greedy duke takes something he shouldn't and pays the ultimate price.

Notes

• "The Return of Grogg!" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #23.
• "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!" is reprinted in Creatures on the Loose #24.
• "The Macabre Mirror" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #23.

• Grogg and Miklos Kozlov appeared last in Strange Tales #83. Grogg appears next in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl #1.

See Also

• 3 Image(s) from Strange Tales Vol 1 87
• 2 Reprints of Strange Tales Vol 1 87

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