Strange Tales #113
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Coming of the Plantman!", a desperate shoemaker whose nightly tales of helpful little people begin to blur with reality finds himself trapped in a nightmare when a loan shark’s relentless demands force him to work through the night. Written by Stan Lee and illustrated with eerie precision by Steve Ditko, this 1963 Marvel classic blends whimsy and dread as the shoemaker’s fables take a terrifying turn. The cover, a dynamic collaboration by Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky, and Don Heck, captures the story’s eerie transformation in bold, striking detail.
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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.
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