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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published November 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 "They Wouldn't Believe Him"

Synopsis A woman three thousand years hence flees into the past to avoid marrying a bore.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "The Masterpiece"

Characters Claude Duval; M. Finnault; Mme Fleury
Synopsis A portrait painter is determined to paint a landscape, and eventually disappears into it.
Genre occult
Reprinted in Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #48 (December 1956) [as "The Greatest Artist"]; in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #5 (September 1959); in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1961 series) #3 (August 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) [nn] (2007); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "The Last Chance"

Synopsis In order to avoid a costly war, a marriage is suggested between two rival factions, but the man finds the girl homely and is not interested. Many of the king's court ply their skills at making her beautiful but none succeed until the sorcerer's apprentice is given leave to try his magic. The war still occurs, however, as the girl marries the apprentice.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Hole In the Ground"

Synopsis Aliens from another dimension kidnap people in an apartment building.
Pencils Vic Carrabotta?
Inks Vic Carrabotta?
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "Jigsaw"

Synopsis A man buys a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces fly out of his hand as he tries to place them.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Survivor"

Synopsis A man washes up on a beach populated by tiny people.
Pencils Dave Berg
Inks Dave Berg
Notes Cover story
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)