Journey into Mystery (1952) comic books 1951-1953

Cover by Russ Heath. "One Foot In the Grave," art by Tony DiPreta; A man decides to make money by reselling flowers stolen from graves until the dead return to take their flowers back. "Death Finds A Way!" text story. "The Clutching Hands," script by Carl Wessler, art by Cal Massey; A writer murders another writer to steal his work, but the dead writer's hands continue to make trouble for him. Haunted!, art by Vic Carrabotta; A ghost scares off potential buyers of a derelict house. "It Can't Miss," art by Jay Scott Pike; An accomplice to an escaped con kills a man who looks like his buddy so that the cops will find the body and think the escaped prisoner is dead while he assumes the dead man's identity. "Iron-Head," art by Dick Ayers; Bronson is a grave robber and a murderer; To avoid being captured by the authorities, he accepts a job as a deep-sea diver on a private yacht. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Scarecrow," art by Russ Heath; Scrawny Tim Blake buys a magic potion to build up his muscles, which is very successful at first, until it sends his body out of control. "The Pact" text story. "Don't Look!," art by Jay Scott Pike; A madman offers to give an attorney a magic mirror that reveals how people will look in the future but there is a secret terrible cost. "How Clumsy Can Ya Be?," art by Howard Post; A would-be magician bungles his training in India, and when he returns to the States to begin his career, he bungles his first performance, too. "Thru the Door," pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz; A boxer's manager tries to persuade the boxer's wife to run away with him, but the boxer overhears and chases after them; They barricade themselves in a room, but the manager then learns that the woman is really a hungry vampire. The Hiding Place, art by Gene Colan; When Ann and her lover Paul are confronted by Ann's husband, she panics and kills him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

"Hands Off!"; Eugene Varo designs artificial hands, and strives to imitate "the old masters" in that field; However, his creations are rejected by manufacturer Perry Nugent; Returning home, Varo is confronted by a ghostly figure who desires to take the hands back to the past, as "they are too beautiful for this age." "Revenge From Beyond" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Corpse!", pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Sy Barry; This story is narrated by the dead body of John Saxton; Before his death, he had been engaged to marry a woman named Barbara, but suspected her of having an affair with his brother Donald. "I Didn't See a Thing!", art by Louis Zansky; Running from the police, wanted criminal Ed Rocco ducks into a bar, where he meets a rather strange-seeming bartender; Rocco buys a drink in an attempt to quiet his nerves, but he soon sees the ghosts of the men he has murdered gliding into the bar and threatening to kill him. "The Stroke of Midnight!", art by Carmine Infantino; Bank president Ebenezer Grimm fires a longtime employee for being too "soft-hearted," and then he forecloses on the mortgage of an old woman, forcing her out of her house. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. "The Bewitched Bike!," art by Tony DiPreta; A crook steals a bike from a time-traveler that has come from the year 1992, forty years in the future; He robs a bank and pedals into the future but is recognized anyway and shot as he attempts to flee. "Death Waits Within!," art by Carl Hubbell; An elderly couple that run an inn in Europe murder their guests in order to rob them and send the money to their son in America. "The Locked Door!," art by Ed Winiarski. "Out of the Jungle" text story. Out of the Jungle; Pete Norris is a con who is about to get the chair for the murders he committed. "Hiding Place," art by John Romita. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. "Fright," script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; A cruel asylum keeper is drugged by his assistant as he and the asylum keeper's wife wish to marry. "The Big Shoes" text story. "Zombie!," art by Tony DiPreta; In a Haitian village, a criminal named Blackie becomes afraid for his life when a man named Larson he framed for a crime has learned how to raise the dead and control the reanimated corpses as zombies; After a close brush with death when fighting off the zombie, Blackie decides to go and learn how to raise a zombie himself. "Condemned!," art by Carl Hubbell. "Innocent Bystander," art by Dick Briefer; A woman buys an antique statue that murders her in her sleep. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. "Death!," script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; When a scientist reanimates the body of a murder victim he has freshly killed in order to learn what death is like, his victim shows him by strangling him. "The Experiment" text story, art by Paul Reinman. "Wings of the Vampire!," script by Stan Lee, art by Ed Winiarski; A European village inspector thinks he is safe from the town vampire by locking himself inside the jail, but it turns out that is the vampire's hideout. "The Perfect Specimen!," art by Tony DiPreta; When a recruiting station tests what appears to be the perfect recruit they are surprised the x-ray results reveal him to be a robot. "The Man Who Went Back," script by Carl Wessler, art by Sam Kweskin; An escaped killer, due to be hanged, gets on a bus that moves forward in time so that the passengers age rapidly. "Till Death Do Us Part!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Mort Lawrence; A man who murders his wives for their money hooks up with a woman who just murders her husbands for kicks. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. "Death of a Puppet," art by Harry Anderson; A puppeteer's menagerie consists of shrunken humans. "Death Draws a Circle" text story. "Ghost Guard," art by Tony DiPret; A hermit reveals himself to be a ghost guarding pirate treasure. "Paid In Full," art by Carl Hubbell; A collection agent bullies one of his victims so much that the man murders and robs the collection agent unknowingly in the darkened streets so he has the money to pay off his debt. "High As a Kite," art by Vic Dowling; The town drunk who wishes to be as high as a kite meets the Devil in a bar, who grants his wish. "It's Murder, He Says!," art by Jack Abel; The police take down the story of a man who claims to know about the details of a murder that took place between two brothers. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. "The Tough Guy," script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Maneely; A muscleman gets pistol whipped and winds up in the hospital; He overhears a conversation between two doctors about a serum that toughens the body so he decides to take it and turn to crime with his powerful body. "Indoor Sport!," art by Sam Kweskin; A female ghost acquires pictures of men from potential suitors and throws darts into them to inflict pain and death upon the men in revenge for a man who once jilted her. "Willie Brown Is Out to Get Me!," script by Stan Lee, art by Al Luster; People tell a thug that Willie Brown is after him, which terrifies him, since he shot Willie Brown a week ago and he is now a zombie. "Time Reversal" text story. "He Who Hesitates...," art by Al Eadeh; A hesitant professor finally decides to kill the romeo who's moving in on his wife, but as usual, he waits a little too long and the other man pushes him off the cliff instead so that he can marry the professor's wife. "The Strange Case of Mr. Whimple!," art by Fred Kida; A thief attacks a man who always carries a box around on his shoulder with a blackjack and kills him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. "The Only Man In the World" (Part 1), art by Jerry Robinson; Aliens from dimension X stop time and then destroy humanity. "I Made a Monster," art by John Forte; When a jilted scientist is building a Frankenstein monster to kill for him, he decides to test it by using the type of lipstick his love interest wears as a kill trigger in order to pay her back for spurning him. "Last Verdict" text story. "The Hungry Animal!," art by Ed Goldfarb; Synopsis: When two robbers murder a retired sea captain in his seashore house, they decide to kill his pet as well, lest it begin to howl before they have time to get far enough away from the scene of the crime. "The Black Box!," art by Mac Pakula; A shoplifter regrets stealing and opening a black box from a "monster sale." "My Brother's Killer!," art by Paul Reinman; A brother decides to murder his brother for an inheritance, but when the train they are traveling crashes, he decides to merely leave him to perish in the fire. When the will is read, it is revealed that the dead man was the only person who knew the location of the mine wherein the fortune was kept. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Cover by Russ Heath. "The Hidden Vampires," art by Tony DiPreta; When a village has been sucked nearly dry of blood by undetected vampires, a vampire stalker arrives with his helpers, a black box filled with hungry mosquitoes. "The Art of Death!!" text story. "The New Look," art by Dan Loprino; The Devil grants the wish of an ugly man to have a new handsome face by grafting it onto the back of his head. "If the Coat Fits," script by Jack Oleck, art by Russ Heath; A man leaves a coat with a pawn shop owner that transports the wearer into another dimension and replaces them with a shadow person. "Meet the Dead," art by Don Perlin; A medium gets a couple of her spirit contacts to frame another medium as a fake who is draining away clients from her. "The Other Face," art by George Tuska; A plastic surgeon wants a man's wife so knocks him out and exchanges faces with him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Carl Burgos. "A Night in Dragmoor Castle!!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Al Eadeh; A thief meets a girl who works as a maid at a castle and convinces her to help him rob the place so that they can acquire enough money to return to America together. "The Lost Continent" text story. "A Witch in Love," art by Dick Briefer; A witch, who has never seen a man before, one night leaves the forest for the nearby town only to mistakenly fall in love with a statue in the town square. "All About Mars," art by Pablo Ferro; An ugly man decides to build a rocket to take him to Mars, but the Martians are even more repulsive than he is, so they flee from him in disgust. "The Sight of the Ghost!," art by Tony DiPreta; A ghost in the forest comes across a boy trapped in a pit, but everyone who sees him is too frightened to lend aid. "The Strange Boy," art by Ed Goldfarb; A greedy couple gain custody of a small boy, who survives a fire, in hope of extracting a reward from relatives when they are located. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

"Not Normal!," art by George Roussos; A man with a gun that fires silver bullets has difficulty finding a girl with no demon blood in her, even in Budapest, so he ends up marrying an American girl who is neither a witch nor a vampire. "A Bargain With Satan" text story, art by Carl Burgos. "Keep Off the Grass," art by John Forte; When a gangster buys an estate and damages the lawn with his golf practice, the grass gets even. "The Living and the Dead," art by Myron Fass; A man who enters a cemetery finds that he has crossed a barrier between the living and the dead, and the damned souls there wish him to plead to Satan their case that they should be released. "What Harry Saw!;" A man uses a device to look into the future to check up on his wife; When he sees her with another man, he attempts to shoot her. "We Don't Want Your Head!," art by Vic Carrabotta; After a pianist arranges for his wife to be murdered on safari for her money he is captured by native hand-hunters. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.