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Cover: Jack Kirby & Sol Brodsky & Don Heck & Sol Brodsky
Strange Tales #113
“The Coming of the Plantman!”
writer Stan Lee · artist Steve Ditko · inker George Roussos · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Art Simek · cover Jack KirbySol BrodskyDon HeckSol Brodsky
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Full credits
writer Stan Lee
artist Steve Ditko
inker George Roussos
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Art Simek
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover pencils Sol Brodsky
cover inks Don Heck
cover inks Sol Brodsky
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A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).