Strange Tales Vol 1 87

Strange Tales Vol 1 #87 Published August, 1961 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby Dick Ayers "The Return of Grogg!" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Dick Ayers Editor Stan Lee "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!" Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Editor Stan Lee "The Macabre Mirror!" Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Strange Tales #86 Strange Tales #88

Appearing in "The Return of Grogg!"

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• Miklos Kozlov (Final appearance)

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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 "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!"

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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!"

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Synopsis for "The Macabre Mirror!"

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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.

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