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Astounding Stories#52
Cover: John Giunta
Astounding Stories #52
“The Puppet Fly”
writer Stan Lee · writer Larry Lieber · artist Jack Kirby · inker Dick Ayers · letterer Ray Holloway · cover John Giunta
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Full credits
writer Stan Lee
writer Larry Lieber
artist Jack Kirby
inker Dick Ayers
letterer Ray Holloway
cover pencils, inks John Giunta
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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.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).