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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published October 1955
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Man Who Stopped Time"

Synopsis A man buys a watch that stops time, but for every minute he halts, a year passes for him.
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "The Expert"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in World of Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #4 (December 1956) [as "Secrets From Space"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "It Happened On Mars"

Synopsis When a space ranger meets a Martian princess, he forgets about the girl who jilted him.
Pencils John Tartaglione
Inks John Tartaglione
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "The Masterpiece"

Synopsis A painter two hundred years dead does a favor for a struggling artist who ekes out a living copying his works.
Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "The Man Who Changed"

Synopsis 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.
Pencils Jay Scott Pike
Inks Jay Scott Pike
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Train That Wasn't There"

Synopsis A railroad magnate curses his rival with a ghost train that runs through his property.
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)