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Iron Man 2020 (2020 Marvel) 5D CBCS 9.8 Lim Variant

Paper: White

Ron Lim Variant.

Label #20-353DF67-013

Written by Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage. Art by Pete Woods. Cover by Ron Lim. Tony Stark is back! But is this the REAL Tony? How is that possible?! Where did that all-new armor come from?! WHAT'S GOING ON?! There's no time to explain, human. Just know this: It's STARK VS. STARK ROUND 2, as Tony takes on Arno...in SPACE! 32 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

Iron Man 2020 (2020 Marvel) 5E CBCS 9.8 Superlog Variant

Paper: White

Superlog Variant.

Label #20-353DF67-012

Written by Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage. Art by Pete Woods. Cover by Superlog. Tony Stark is back! But is this the REAL Tony? How is that possible?! Where did that all-new armor come from?! WHAT'S GOING ON?! There's no time to explain, human. Just know this: It's STARK VS. STARK ROUND 2, as Tony takes on Arno...in SPACE! 32 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

Iron Man 2020 (2020 Marvel) 6B CBCS 9.8 Okazaki 1:25 Variant

Paper: White

Okazaki Retailer Incentive.

Label #20-353DF67-018

Limited 1 for 25 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Written by Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage. Art by Pete Woods. Cover by Takashi Okazaki. Throw out the rest of your stupid, worthless flesh-bag calendars. 2020 is over, man! The moment Arno Stark has been preparing for is here: the end of all human and artificial life as we know it! All this time you thought he was just some egomaniacal jerk; well, who's laughing now? Well...no one really. We're all about to die. 32 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

Jeff the Landshark (2025 Marvel) 1D CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Yagawa Variant Cover.

Label #4680275001

Foil Cover. Written by Kelly Thompson. Art by Tokitokoro. Cover by Rickie Yagawa. FRIENDS AND RIVALS! Hot off his star-making appearance in MARVEL RIVALS, everyone's favorite walking fish boy has bitten off his first starring miniseries! Join Jeff as he teams up with many of the friends he's made over the years and out smarts more than a few rivals along the way…and this time, he's got some all-new abilities on his side! Join Jeff co-creator Kelly Thompson and artist Tokitokoro as they sharpen the teeth of the undeniable star of the entire Marvel Universe - love him or hate him, you know you want to see MORE JEFF! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

JLA Avengers (2003) 1 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4643163016

Written by KURT BUSIEK; Wraparound cover & art by GEORGE PÉREZ THE EVENT 20 YEARS IN THE MAKING!·WITH APPEARANCES BY EVERY AVENGER & JLA MEMBER ... EVER! THE WAIT IS OVER! The most eagerly anticipated comic book crossover of all time has finally arrived, with alternating Prestige Format issues by Marvel & DC Comics! What cataclysmic threat could endanger two universes - and dwarf the combined power of both Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the World's Greatest Super-Heroes? The world finally learns the answer in September 2003! 48 PGS./PRESTIGE FORMAT/MARVEL PG...$5.95 UPC: 5960605369-00111 Cover price $5.95.

JLA Avengers (2003) 4 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4669616012

WRITTEN BY KURT BUSIEK; ART AND COVER BY GEORGE PÉREZ Celebrate the finale of the biggest crossover in comics history! The World's Greatest team-up of Earths' Mightiest Heroes climaxes with the fate of both universes hanging in the balance! This one is crammed full of everything you read comics for. Cover price $5.95.

John Carter Warlord of Mars (1977 Marvel) 1 CBCS 9.2

Paper: Off white to white

Newsstand Edition.

Label #20-043134B-017

Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian novels, John Carter Warlord of Mars ran for 28 issues. "Air Pirates of Mars, Part 1" finds John Carter rescuing Dejah Thoris from an army of Tharks and uncovering a plot to destroy his beloved Barsoom. Includes Welcome Back, Carter text editorial. Script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Dave Cockrum. Cover by Kane and Cockrum. Cover price $0.30.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 10 FR 1.0

Full length spine split (taped). Centerfold detached. Brittle.

Cover by Carl Burgos. "The Wrong World" [The Only Man in the World, Part 2], art by Jerry Robinson; The professor from the first story in the previous issue rebuilds the cyclotron that he destroyed in order to activate it and restore time to the moment just before humanity was wiped out. "Jack and Jill Went up the Hill!," art by Larry Woromay; A woman named Jill murders her stepbrother Jack while mountain climbing, and the tether between them drags her down as well. "Witch-Girl" text story. "Now You See It...," art by Sam Kweskin; When his wife threatens to leave him for the manager, the magician really does saw his wife in half. "The Assassin of Paris," art by Charles A. Winter; A thief picks the wrong mark when he targets a mindreader. "Vacation for Vincent," pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 22 FR 1.0

4" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple. Water saturation. Staple rust with migration.

Cover by Joe Maneely. "Mission On Earth," pencils by Art Peddy; A fantasy writer is visited by aliens who wish him to teach them human emotions so that they can observe humans undetected. "Strange Pursuit" text story. "Haunted House," pencils by Larry Woromay; A man takes a bet to spend the night in a haunted house and ends up the ghost which haunts the house. "The Man Who Watched," art by John Forte; An East German plots to murder his business partner and then get help from an Allied soldier stationed just across the border, but the soldier is actually a statue and does not respond to his plea. "The Blaster," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Seymour Moskowitz; Martian gun-runners arm select humans with advanced weaponry hoping that they will battle amongst themselves and leave them as easy pickings for an invasion force. "The Human Germ," art by Mort Lawrence. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 23 FR 1.0

Near-complete spine split (partially taped). Cover oxidation. Tape under staple.

Cover by Carl Burgos. "Gone...But Not Forgotten?," art by John Forte; An alien child makes off with Earth city landmarks. "Trapped!" text story. "Yvette," art by Marvin Stein; Two ghosts search for each other on the streets of Paris. "Revenge!," art by Ed Winiarski; A man in a labor camp plots his revenge against a co-prisoner responsible for his being there, but has the ill luck of following him into the gas chamber on the day of his scheduled execution. "The Doll House!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Gene Colan; Now that she's twelve, a girl's parents think she is too old for her dollhouse, so they put it in the attic. "Clinging Vine," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Manny Stallman; An explorer has a theory that ivy is plotting against mankind; They put him in a padded cell, where ivy sneaks in through the bars and strangles him before anyone notices. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 24 GD 2.0

1" Spine split from top. Cover and centerfold detached. Oxidation.

Cover pencils by Sol Brodsky. "The Locked Drawer!", art by Bill Benulis; A couple buy a dresser that used to belong to a witch and the bottom drawer does not open; They are curious because of a story the furniture dealer told them about the witch keeping all of her secrets in the bottom drawer, and so they attempt to open it, without success. "High Pressure Man!", art by John Tartaglione; A desperate publicity man is trying to use gimmicks to garner attention, but with his new client, the schemes don't work out; First he tells the man to enter the lion cage at the zoo but the beasts appear uninterested so he enters to attempt a rescue, but he ends up needing to be rescued by his client from the animals; Second he tells the client to enter a burning building and he will enter to rescue him but he is overcome by smoke and the client has to carry him out. "The Stone Bird," art by Angelo Torres; A farmer is plagued by a gargoyle that nightly devours his chickens. "The Journey" text story, art by Carl Burgos. "The Long Night," pencils by Paul Reinman; A man believes that his relatives are just waiting for him to die so they can get his money and that he hates them; When he is under the impression he has died, he finds himself in an afterlife where he is stopped from boarding a beautiful boat taking people to the promised land. "The Eager Beaver!", art by Mort Lawrence; A man who always wants to be first in line for public events in order to photographed by the newspapers regrets when he signs up to be the first man launched to Mars. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 27 GD- 1.8

3" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation. Water spotting.

Cover art by Carl Burgos. "The Man Who Stopped Time!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Dick Ayers; A man buys a watch that stops time, but for every minute he halts, a year passes for him. "The Expert" text story. "It Happened On Mars," art by John Tartaglione; When a space ranger meets a Martian princess, he forgets about the girl who jilted him. "The Masterpiece!," art by John Severin; A painter two hundred years dead does a favor for a struggling artist who ekes out a living copying his works. "The Man Who Changed," art by Jay Scott Pike; A plain woman shows kindness to a down-and-outer on St. Valentine's day and he reveals himself as St. Valentine and rewards her with beauty. "The Train That Wasn't There!," art by Bob Powell; A railroad magnate curses his rival with a ghost train that runs through his property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 35 GD 2.0

1" Spine split from bottom. Centerfold detached at one staple. Water damage.

"Fallon's Folly" (art by Paul Reinman), "The Unexpected Voyages" (art by Lou Cameron), "Missing Persons" (art by Mac L. Pakula), "Turn Back the Clock" (art by Jay Scott Pike), "The Mysterious Mr. Peebles," "The Green Fires of Mars" (art by John Forte), and a two-page text story, "The Long Journey." 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 36 FR 1.0

7" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple, coming detached at second. Centerfold detached. Oxidation. Water damage.

Cover by Bill Everett. "I, the Pharaoh," script by Carl Wessler, art by Joe Sinnott; This story starts in the present and depicts a man dreaming that he is a Pharaoh and ends in the past with the Pharaoh recovering from a delusion where he thought he was a man from 1956. "He Hides Among Us," script by Carl Wessler, art by Herb Familton; A doctor raises a Martian child among humans as an experiment; When a young man breaks several athletic records, his rival for the affection of a young girl digs through the doctor's records attempting to prove his suspicions regarding alien origin. "The Floating City;" An architect builds a bridge that collapses but is approached by an alien who appreciates his daring and contracts him to build a suspended city in the desert. "Something Is Happening in There!," art by Carl Hubbard; A yokel thinks his neighbor has a time machine in his barn, but it's really just a new design for a car wash. "Island Mystery" text story. "The Lost Land," art by Ted Galindo. "The Beasts!," art by Paul Hodge. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 37 GD+ 2.5

Cover coming detached at one staple. Oxidation.

Cover by Bill Everett. "The Deep Freeze," script by Carl Wessler, art by Don Heck; Three crooks place themselves in suspended animation for 200 years after stealing 150,000 dollars. "Volcano!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jimmy Infantino; A man introduces technology to a primitive people living at the base of a volcano and the volcano becomes angry at their new competitive and mistrustful nature so wipes out their society. "Inside the Whirlpool," art by Ed Winiarski. "The Voice In the Night," art by Robert Q. Sale; When a man slugs an elderly man collecting donations for the poor and steals the poor box, his conscience bothers him so much that he hears a clock accuse him of being a thief. "The Old Shop" text story. "The Sea Serpent!," art by John Fort; A sailor sees a sea serpent arise when there is a disaster to be averted. "The First Man," pencils by George Roussos, inks by John Giunta; The author of this story postulates that a series of satellites will be required to use as refueling stations on the way to the moon. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 38 FR 1.0

8" Cumulative spine split. Oxidation. Water damage.

Cover pencils by Sol Brodsky, inks by Carl Burgos. "Stone Face," art by John Giunta; An evil alien practitioner of black magic is revived by a carnival barker. "Those Who Vanish!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Steve Ditko; A magic pool of water causes those who enter it to vanish back to what they were doing 20 years before. "The Mystery of the Missing Man," art by Bill Walton; A stolen box shrinks the thief into a small figurine. "The Box That Wouldn't Open," script by Carl Wessler, art by Ed Winiarski; Some thieves mistake a scientist's latest invention to be a box that won't open when it turns out his latest invention is a telepathy pill that allows him to cue the police in on his kidnapping by the thieves. "The Servants" text story. "The Secret of the Sargasso Sea," art by Bill Benulis; A ship carrying rocket fuel is deposited into the Sargasso where a stranded rocketship makes use of the fuel and then tows the ship to safety. "The Sea Serpent!," pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 39 GD 2.0

Cover oxidation. Water damage. Tape on interior cover and pages.

"Behind the Mask" (art by Paul Reinman), "The Forbidden Room!" (art by Dick Ayers), "I Lived Four Times," "At the Edge of Nowhere," "He Can't Resist!" (art by George Roussos), "The Executioner!" (art by Wally Wood), and a two-page text story, "Memory Mix." Bill Everett cover. 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 40 FR/GD 1.5

Cover detached. Water damage. Interior soiling.

Cover by Bill Everett. "I Saw a Demon!," art by John Giunta; A scientist invents a machine to record sound waves onto solid objects such as rocks and tests the playback on a rock taken from an old temple where the black arts were practiced. "The Silence!," art by Gene Colan; In the year 2076 the first flight to Mars finds that Martians have built a replica of a small town as a welcome. "How Harry Escaped," art by Ed Winiarski. "The Experiment" text story. "The Strange Secret of Henry Hill!," art by Bill Draut; A man jealous of the success of another man learns of an experiment that brought a child from another dimension to live on Earth. "The Victim!," art by Vic Carrabotta; A confidence man becomes the kidnap victim of an alien from Pluto who needs to demonstrate to his people that his transference device works. "The Question That Can't Be Answered!," art by John Forte; A reporter thinks reincarnation a scam and so he plans to expose a hypnotist who has prepared a hoax with his wife to channel a spirit through time. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 41 GD 2.0

Cover by Bill Everett. "I Switched Bodies," art by Reed Crandall; An old scientist invents a machine that can transpose minds into other bodies but he makes the mistake of picking as his victim an ex-con on the way to meet with his parole officer. "He Came From Nowhere," art by Gray Morrow; Time-traveling government agents go back to the past in order to duel it out over a scientist's work. "TV Invasion" text story. "Prison Without Bars," script by Carl Wessler, art by Ed Winiarski; A criminal is set free from jail if he agrees to a form of behavioral control by hypnotism ala "A Clockwork Orange." "The Unseen," art by Mac L. Pakula; Invisible visitors to Earth arrive in a flying saucer. "The Perfect Hideout," art by Syd Shores; A fleeing dictator thinks he will hide out on an island and then fly back to the mainland when his pursuers have given up looking for him, but his associates have drained the plane of fuel. "The Swirling Mist!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Joe Sinnott; A man finds himself on a steamboat that transports him through time. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 44 FR 1.0

2" Cumulative spine split. Water damage. Staple deterioration. Oxidation.

Cover by Bill Everett. "The Menace of the Green Men," script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Ralph Mayo; Light images of aliens from space become the fall guy of a crook in a series of planned robberies. "While the City Sleeps," art by Doug Wildey; A midget who poses as a ventriloquist's doll in order to pull off heists has a chemist friend who works on suspended animation pills as a hobby. "The Strange Power of Henry Grey," art by Ed Winiarski; A man finds he has the power to project his spirit across distance; He uses this ability to do evil to people as he is a hateful person. "The Taboo," script by Carl Wessler, art by Tony DiPreta; When a sailor upstages a native witch doctor, the witch doctor maroons the sailor on a small island surrounded by sharks. "The Heat's On" text story, art by Gene Colan and Don Heck. "The Outcast," inks by Vince Colletta; A telepath who works for the police department is shunned by others because of his ability until he saves a trapped boy. "The Haunted Halls," art by Frank Bolle; When a man enters a castle, he becomes the resident ghost. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 45 GD 2.0

3" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Oxidation. Water damage.

"The Demon's Shadow!" with art by Ted Galindo; "Which One of Us is Me?" with art by John Forte; "The Eye That Never Closed!" with art by Joe Orlando; "Something in the house!" with art by Robert Q. Sale; "A Scream on the Screen!"; "What Happened to Harrison!" with art by Howard O'Donnell; and a two-page text story, "Look to the Future." Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 46 GD- 1.8

4" Cumulative spine split. Oxidation.

Cover by Carl Burgos. "The Middle of the Night," art by John Forte; A watch repairman gets a watch from a mysterious stranger and when he fixes it, he finds that he can go backwards and forwards in time by moving the hands. "Voodoo," art by Robert Q. Sale; Two detectives with different attitudes toward voodoo track down a blackmailer. "Immortal Horses" text story, art by Gene Colan. "The Red Doom," art by Bernard Baily; When a man attempts to steal the world's largest ruby from an Indian temple, he finds himself mysteriously imprisoned under glass. "The Desert Rat," art by Bernie Krigstein; An aging strongman drinks a potion that will forever keep him a "man of iron"...literally. "The Betrayer," art by Manny Stallman; A Communist terrorist is burned to death by the statue of liberty's torch when he tries to place a bomb there. "Nightmare," art by Angelo Torres; When three people in a town commit criminal or uncompassionate acts, they perceive the entire town floating off into space, until they repent of their actions. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 47 GD+ 2.5

Water damage. Writing on interior pages.

Cover pencils by Bill Everett, inks by Carl Burgos. "Bring Back My Body," pencils by George Woodbridge, inks by Syd Shores; When a man in a trance gets into an astral duel with another, the strain proves too much for his body. "It Hides Under the Ground," script by Carl Wessler, art by Syd Shores; A coward cooks up a scheme to swindle two old men out of paying for a fake chariot of Odin, but when his workers dig in another spot in the cave where he planted the fake chariot, they uncover the real thing and it takes him to Valhalla to fight battles for eternity. "They Can't Find Me," art by Manny Stallman; A scientist invents an invisibility serum that only renders the one who imbibes it invisible to himself. "The Blinding Flash," script by Carl Wessler, art by Robert Q. Sale; When a scientist invents a device that allows an image to be projected into the past that can retrieve objects, a crook uses it to pick up a lighter with his initials that he dropped at the scene of his robbery. "The Face in the Darkness," art by Howard O'Donnell; A man who goes to mediums looking to speak to a non-living relative thinks the swami who conjures a spirit is fake because the spirit can answer none of his questions. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 48 GD/VG 3.0 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Color touch. Cover oxidation.

Cover by Bill Everett. "Where There's Smoke…," art by Sam Kweskin; A smoker finds a blend of tobacco that makes his dreams come true, but his wife sells some to a customer who has a nightmare about the tobacco seller being lost in the darkest depths of Africa. "The Woman Who Played with Dolls," script by Carl Wessler, art by Richard Doxsee; A wealthy woman shrinks people who try to rob her and plays with them in a doll house. "The Phony!," art by Marvin Stein; A man who invents fake tales for profit runs into a real adventure that he can't tell because everyone thinks of him as a phony. "Behind the Mask!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jay Scott Pike; A man in his sixties pays a doctor ten thousand dollars for a mask that will allow him to look younger in order to court a woman in her twenties, but the end of the story reveals that she is also an older person who has paid for such a mask. "The New Pupil" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Don't Turn Around!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Bill Everett; A man thinks that his invention to bring forth people from the past is a failure, but it actually worked to scare away two crooks who were intent on robbing him while he was knocked out. "The Curiosity of Mr. Catt!," pencils by Angelo Torres. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 49 GD/VG 3.0

Cover-to-cover edge tear.

Cover by Joe Maneely. "City of Giants," art by John Forte; A man invents a gas that makes people 30 feet tall; While everyone is giant-sized, he goes around looting the town. "The Doctor Wears a Mask," art by Alfonso Greene; Sociologists investigate a totally harmonious town, and find that the people were shamed into better behavior by their persecution of a stranger who turned out to be an alien with a mirror face. "The World-Destroyers!," art by Matt Fox; Aliens make the mistake of stealing an Egyptian solar ship from the museum when they need a boat to make last minute adjustments to a bomb set to detonate in the ocean. "The Little Green Man," art by Sol Brodsky; A jade Buddha begins to possess its owner until the man even begins to resemble the fat statue. His wife frees the man by smashing the statue. "Morgan's Mad Machine!," art by Ed Winiarski; Two swindlers get taken by a conman who tries to sell them a gold-making machine. "Sdrawkcab," art by John Tartaglione; An extraordiinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards. "The Room With Two Billion Cards!," art by Sidney Check. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 50 VG 4.0

"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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 50 GD+ 2.5

Water damage.

"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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 51 FR 1.0

Full length spine split with covers detached. Water damage.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 54 GD+ 2.5

Cover detached. Water damage.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 56 GD- 1.8

1" Spine split from top.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 57 CGC 5.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1221900003

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 58 GD+ 2.5

Cover oxidation. Water damage.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 59 VG- 3.5

1/2" Spine split from bottom. Cover oxidation.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 60A GD/VG 3.0

1" Cumulative spine split.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 60B GD 2.0 White Box Variant

Moisture damage.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 63 VG 4.0

Water damage.

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.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 64 GD/VG 3.0

Cover oxidation. Water damage.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A spider-like alien invades a small New Mexico town; No one can stop him except for a boy who reads science-fiction comics. "The Weatherman" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "I Found the Lair of...the Lizard Men," art by Don Heck; A convict escapes and hides in a cavern, where he finds a society of lizard men unable to breathe on the surface. "I Must Find Korumbu!," art by Steve Ditko; A fat man who wishes to lose weight without giving up overeating goes to Korumbu for a magic potion. "Who Is the Ape Man?," art by Paul Reinman; A bullying strong-man torments the animals in the circus where he works; He is humiliated and beaten by a mysterious strong-man, who turns out to be a gorilla disguised by its trainer, who is a chimpanzee in disguise. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 65 VG- 3.5

Water damage.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "I Am the Brute That Walks!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man invents a growth serum to deal with his insecurities, but it turns him into a monster. "Fear in the Night," art by Steve Ditko; A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot. "Kragoo!," art by Don Heck; An alien soldier is given immense strength and the ability to possess the body of one victim in order to hypnotize the population of their target planet. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 66 GD/VG 3.0

Cover oxidation. Staple rust.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Return of the Hulk!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Hulk returns from space and takes over a small town to get revenge on the human that defeated him. "The Black Ray," art by Paul Reinman; An imprisoned criminal scientist pretends to make a medical device which is in fact a time machine. "The Thing Behind the Wall!," art by Steve Ditko; A thief passes through a wall and is confronted by an evil entity that plans to invade Earth; He escapes, only to be arrested and jailed; He doesnt know if it was real, but is too afraid to touch the wall of his cell and find out. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 67 FR/GD 1.5

5" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple.

Cover by Steve Ditko. "Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A journalist convinces the public that an amnesiac alien is a menace in order to make a better story. "The Black Clock!," art by Don Heck; A criminal steals a strange clock from an old man, but finds that it is cursed. "The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg," art by Steve Ditko; A cowardly space pilot flees a battle until his spaceship runs out of power and he crashes into a bog on an Earth-like planet. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 68 VG- 3.5

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Spragg Conqueror of the Human Race!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Spragg, an outcast of his race, is forced to the surface of the Earth in Transylvania, where he enslaves the local villagers and forces them to build him a device to boost his powers. "The Utopia" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Where Walks the Ghost," art by Steve Ditko; An escaped convict looks to buy a house that has the reputation of being haunted so people will steer clear of him, but when he meets up with a real estate agent turns out to be the ghost that haunts the prospective property, he turns himself in to the police for his own protection. "The Man From Mars!," art by Don Heck; A dishonest carnival owner hires an amnesiac to play a Martian and cheats him on his wages. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 69 VG- 3.5

Cover oxidation with chipping.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Was Captured by...Korilla!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A cab driver uncovers an alien plotting an invasion of Earth. "The Iron Giant!," art by Paul Reinman; A train conductor in the Old West, who loves his locomotive, is robbed by bandits and left in the wilderness to die, but the bandits are chased to justice by the suddenly-animated locomotive. "When Darkness Falls!!," art by Steve Ditko; A man sees mannequins move during the business hours of the store, and stays until closing. When the mannequins step down from their positions he berates them for nearly being caught, since he was another living mannequin all along. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 71 GD- 1.8

Centerfold detached at one staple. Cover oxidation. Water damage.

Cover by Steve Ditko. "I Brought the Roc to Life!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Two newlyweds in Egypt uncover a huge egg in the sand that hatches into the Roc in the warm sunlight. "The Boy Who Vanished!," art by Paul Reinman; A lame boy wills himself to the future and his legs are healed before he sends himself home. "The Painting," art by Steve Ditko; An art dealer who buys quality paintings at rock-bottom insulting prices from poverty stricken artists and then sells them for thousands attempts to steal a beautiful painting from a gypsy who refuses to sell it; The dealer has the gypsy arrested on a trumped up charge and burgles the man's wagon to remove the painting. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 72 VG- 3.5

Cover coming detached at one staple. Water spotting.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "The Glob," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint; The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. "The Sorcerer" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Patient in Room 3D," art by Paul Reinman; Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. "Will This Be the End of the World?," art by Steve Ditko; A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 73 VG 4.0

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. "Where Will You Be, When...The Spider Strikes!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. "What Lurks on Channel X?," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A couple with a nasty landlord get a free TV set from a stranger; It is a device sent by aliens to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. "Menace from Mars!," art by Don Heck; Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. "One Look Means Doom!," art by Steve Ditko; A couple moves to a cursed castle and the man discovers the imprisoned Medusa. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 74 VG 4.0

Staple rust. Soiling.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Thing in the Black Box!," pencils by Jack Kirby; A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. "The Remedy Oil" text story, art by Marie Severin. "Midnight in the Wax Museum," pencils by Jack Kirby; An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound; When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. "The Mechanical Men!," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers. "Forever Is a Long Long Time!," art by Don Heck; A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 74 GD+ 2.5

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Thing in the Black Box!," pencils by Jack Kirby; A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. "The Remedy Oil" text story, art by Marie Severin. "Midnight in the Wax Museum," pencils by Jack Kirby; An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound; When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. "The Mechanical Men!," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers. "Forever Is a Long Long Time!," art by Don Heck; A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 75 GD/VG 3.0

Last 10-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Lo-Karr, Bringer of Doom!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; As international tensions mount, an alien lands and demonstrates its power before leaving, promising to return with an army. "Mr. Gregory and the Ghost!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; A homebuilder who uses shoddy materials and unskilled labor gets his comeuppance when he builds a home for himself out of the wood from haunted trees. "The Magic of Mordoo!," art by Paul Reinman; 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. "The Man Who Lost the World!," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A scientist's assistant is determined to find if his time machine that sends objects into the past or future. Ad for Amazing Adult Fantasy. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 76A FR 1.0

Full length spine split with covers detached.

First 12-cent cover price. Corrected Version with 12 cent cover price inside circle. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Genie with the Light Brown Hair!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man finds a genie and uses it to fulfill his selfish whims; The genie finally persuades him to let him return to his bottle, but tricks him into allowing himself to be trapped there too. "Mind Over Matter!," art by Don Heck; A thief meets a lama in the foothills of the Himalayas and is amazed by the feats that he can accomplish with yoga. "Follow the Leader," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. "Escape to...Nowhere!," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A convict in a prison hospital is set to return to death row when he is better so he doesn't want the doctor to dismiss him. Ad for Amazing Adult Fantasy. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Journey into Mystery (1952) 77 VG 4.0

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Beware! He Isn't Human!," art by Jack Kirby; A Hollywood special effects man builds an android to slay a woman who rejected his advances because she was "waiting." "I Don't Believe in...Ghosts!," pencils by Jack Kirby; A man offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can show him a ghost but, time after time, he proves that there is a rational explanation behind the sightings. "When Aliens Walk the Earth!," art by Don Heck; Earth is terrified by the appearance of a flying saucer, but the people are relieved to see the aliens are small and elf-like. "They Were Only Scarecrows!," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A man tries to get his uncle, who talks to scarecrows, committed to an asylum so that he can take over his farm. Ad for Amazing Adult Fantasy. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.