Journey into Mystery (1952) comic books 1958-1960

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"Worlds at War!" with art by Jack Davis; "One Had Vanished!" with art by Steve Ditko; "Uneasy Lies the Head!"; "Adrift in Space!" with art by Don Heck; "The Green Fog!" (art by Vince Colletta?); and a two-page text story, "The Remedy Oil." Joe Sinnott cover. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. "The Ghost Ship of Space," art by Joe Sinnott; A reporter investigates a series of spaceship disappearances and is captured by primitive aliens. "Mystery Pupil" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Creatures in the Volcano," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Wally Wood; A chief of a Pacific island tribe finds aliens in a volcano preparing to conquer Earth. "The Prison Planet!," art by Carl Burgos; A prison colony grows into a thriving society and forgets its origins, while the mother planet becomes a peaceful utopia before being devastated by invaders. "Alien on Earth!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; An alien lands on Earth, but cannot be understood; The humans attack it out of fear, and finally drop a nuclear bomb on it. "Robot on the Rampage!," art by Steve Ditko; A supercomputer and its army of robots enslave humanity, but it is stopped when a janitor unplugs it. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "Menace from Mars!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; Martians threaten to invade Earth, but an intelligent human intimidates them by demonstrating his mastery of the strongest animals on Earth. "The Utopia" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Man With the Atomic Brain!," art by Steve Ditko; A man gains powerful psychic abilities from his parents exposure to radiation, and he is hunted by the government until a hidden group of like-powered people contact him and bring him to their community. "Trapped on Earth"; Alien conquerors create a sentient gas and send it to Earth to mentally enslave a human in order to test their readiness for conquest. "Travelers in Time!," art by Carl Burgos; A screenwriter pitchs a director a movie theorizing that haunted houses are the arrival points for time travelers from the future, but he thinks the story is too far-fetched. "Invasion from Outer Space!," art by Joe Sinnott. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

"Only Twelve of Us May Live!" with art by Joe Sinnott; "Beware of Tomorrow!" with art by Steve Ditko; "The Stranger in Space!" with art by John Forte; "Shadows in the Night!" (art by Sinnott?); "He Made the Machines Go Mad!" (art by Don Heck?); and a two-page text story, "The Spirit." Jack Kirby cover pencils. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "I Unleashed Monstro on the World!," art by Steve Ditko; A hypnotist brings a giant albino gorilla to America, but causes a near calamity when he finds that the beast is blind, and so immune to hypnosis. "Music Master' text story. "I Dared to Defy...the Idol's Curse!," art by Joe Sinnott; A mercenary tries to steal a sacred diamond from a mysterious idol, only to find that the idol is actually a trap set by aliens to collect a human sample for study. "My Other Face!," pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel; A space pilot in the year 2010 is convinced that his appearance is holding him back, and seeks out a new Martian beauty serum, which he is horrified to find turns him into a handsome Martian. "I Know the Gargoyle's Secret!," script by Carl Wessler, art by John Severin; A Frenchman fascinated with gargoyles joins the resistance in WWII. "I Am the Menace from the Purple Planet!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "I Found the Giant in the Sky!," art by Steve Ditko; A homely professor discovers the cloud kingdom of the giants and finds happiness there with a beautiful princess. "Strange Encounter" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "I Can Live Forever!," art by John Forte; A scientist studies redwoods looking for the secret of eternal life. He nearly meets disaster when he tests the formula on himself, and finds that to become immortal he must become immobile. "My Neighbor's Secret!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; An eccentric moves into a desert town and begins building a boat. "I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!," art by Don Heck; A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Kirby. "I Brought Zog Back to Life!," art by Don Heck; An alien giant is found in a glacier, causing fear of what might happen if it gets free. "I Spent a Night in the Haunted Lighthouse!," art by Joe Sinnott; A man visiting a coastal town is stranded in an abandoned lighthouse during a storm and sees a ghostly ship and pirates arrive. "I Planted the Seeds of Doom!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A space explorer sells the seeds of an alien plant, before finding to his horror that the plants spawn monsters. "I Shrunk Away to Nothing!," art by Steve Ditko; A man needs to raise money for his brother's medical treatment and so he answers an ad from a scientist seeking to test a shrinking ray. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!!", pencils by Don Heck and Jack Kirby (splash), inks by Don Heck; An alien robot arrives to hypnotically enslave the people of Earth, but is stopped when it cannot hypnotize one old man, a blind man. "The Earth-Crawlers!," art by Steve Ditko; An inventor with a nagging wife must prevent giant roots resulting from a witch doctor's curse from overrunning Africa. "The Metal Monster," art by Paul Reinman; An American engineer ignores the warnings of locals and builds a road through a Gypsy-inhabited wood. "The Martian Who Stole My Body!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A Martian criminal arrives on earth and switches bodies with a man, but the man's dog can still tell the difference between them, forcing the Martian to switch back. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Steve Ditko. "Return of the Martian!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The imprisoned Martian breaks free and tries to conquer the world. "I Found Rro...The Thing from the Bottomless Pit!," art by Don Heck; A project drilling to the Earths core finds a dragon that is met with terrified attacks from humans. "They Called Me a Witch!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Sinnott; A woman is accused of being a witch by a woman who wishes to get even for being jilted by her former beau. "Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!," art by Steve Ditko; A man says that he is an alien distributing toy men in order to attack Earth, but only one reporter believes him; He convinces others when he explains that he saw a wind-up key in the man's back. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. "I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An explorer wakes the Sphinx, really a robot warrior called Shagg. "I Was Trapped in Horror House!," art by Paul Reinman; A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. "The Revenge of the Wooden Woman," art by Steve Ditko; A sea captain's love for his wooden figurehead is repaid when it saves his life after an attack by pirates. "I Am the Beast-Man!," art by Don Heck; A Russian spy masquerades as a talking bear in order to embarrass the West when the hoax is revealed; He finds that the radiation which he pretended gave a bear the ability to speak actually transformed him into a bear. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "I Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power. "We Were Trapped with the Silent Monster!," art by Don Heck; Against expert opinion, an engineer digs a mine to the center of the Earth and finds dragons. "I Found the Things from Nowhere," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; A man messes with his TV and it picks up a battle between alien-looking creatures. "I Turned into a...Martian!," art by Steve Ditko; A man is telepathically controlled by a hostile Martian who returns to Earth with him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Marvel White Box Variant. The white box is probably the result of a similar type error discovered in the production run and would have been "Fixed" by printing a white box to cover over the error. "Bombu, The Witch Man" with pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; "We Were Trapped with the Silent Monster" (art by Don Heck?); "I Found the Things from Nowhere" with pencils by Kirby; "I Turned into a Martian" with art by Steve Ditko; and a two-page text story, "The Swami." Kirby cover pencils. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "I Defied Gomdulla - The Living Pharaoh!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An ancient alien robot disguised as an Egyptian mummy-god is reactivated, and forms a cult until it is foiled by a policeman and his own high priest. "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!," art by Don Heck; A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. "I Opened the Door to...Nowhere!", art by Steve Ditko; A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years. "The Curse of M'Gumbu!," art by Paul Reinman; An African tribe ignores their witch-doctor's admonishments against raiding, believing that his vow never to harm another makes him helpless. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Here Comes the Hulk!", a.k.a. I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!", is a great 13-page scientist-versus-giant-monster story with art by Jack Kirby/Dick Ayers, but it is not the origin of the Incredible Hulk; But back in the 1960s that fact didn't keep a prominent comics dealer from advertising Journey into Mystery #62 to unsuspecting comic collectors as the "Hulk origin issue"; That prominent dealer was not, by the way, Lone Star Comics, nor was it our friends at Mile High Comics (who were still years away from selling their first comic)! "Strange Mission" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!", art by Don Heck; A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world; His friend hypnotizes a dog and proves that it cannot understand complex questions. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat. "I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things!", art by Steve Ditko; A greedy businessman tries to cut down an ancient tree and is attacked by its branches during the night. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Goliath! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth. "The Heat's On" text story, art by Gene Colan and Don Heck. "I Was Trapped by the Mole Men!," art by Don Heck; A snobbish mine owner is captured by subterranean creatures and kept in a zoo until the mine foreman rescues him. "The Dangerous Doll," pencils by Jack Kirby; A poor man finds a doll in the field and gives it to his lame daughter. "I Took a Journey Into Fear!," art by Steve Ditko; A man wants to build a time machine, but his colleagues say it is impossible. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.