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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published May 1971
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "You Have Defied the Curse of Bombu!"

Characters Bombu; Mr. Mason; Luis
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby; Marie Severin (re-touches and additions)
Inks Steve Ditko; Marie Severin (re-touches and additions)
Notes Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List, 24 August 2006; the previous indexer credited Marie Severin with the pencils and Herb Trimpe with inks.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)

7 page story "I Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu!"

Characters Bombu; Mr. Mason; Luis
Synopsis Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power. He is killed by lightning and when they find that his mask is really his face they realize that he was an alien.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)

5 page story "I Found the Things from Nowhere"

Characters Joe Carter
Synopsis A man messes with his TV and it picks up battle between alien-looking creatures. The man assumes that he must have tuned into the events upon some other planet, but what the TV has actually shown him was a colony of black ants being attacked and destroyed by a colony of red ants right outside his window.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)

4 page story "The Magic of Mordoo!"

Characters Franz Kopnik; Katrina Steuben; Mordoo
Synopsis A man falls in love with a middle-aged woman on vacation, but wants a younger wife. He convinces her to let a gypsy magician make her young again, but once she's young and pretty she leaves him for the young attractive gypsy.
Genre horror
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.).
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75 (December 1961)

4 page story "The Man Who Lost the World!"

Characters Bruno
Synopsis A scientist's assistant is determined to find whether his time machine sends objects into the past or future. When his journey ends, Earth is so primitive that he is cut off from all humanity, and he realizes that he still doesn't know whether the machine sends things into the past or future since it could be either the dawn or the end of time.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Letters Art Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.).
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75 (December 1961).