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Journey into Mystery (1952) comic books 1938-1955

  • Issue #2
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 2

    "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.

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    3 days left Auction Journey Into Mystery #2 (1952) Atlas Fine+ (6.5) Heath! Colan! Very Nice Golden!

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  • Issue #4
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 4

    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.

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    3 days left Auction Journey Into Mystery #4 (1952) Atlas Fine- (5.5) CGC! Heath! Bill Everett cover!

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  • Issue #10
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 10
    Auction opens April 6
    • Interior tearing. Cover loose at one staple. Cover oxidation. Water spotting.
    • Interior is complete.

    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.

  • Issue #14
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 14
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s); See item notes
    • Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure.
    • Label #4152712013

    Cover by Gene Colan. "The Slug!," art by Russ Heath; A wealthy man's brother attempts to induce transformative nightmares through hypnosis so that he can inherit the wealth when the victim is committed to an asylum. "Sculptor of the Dead" text story. "Where the Vampire Flies," art by Robert Q. Sale; This story is about a married couple who are both vampires but hide the secret from each other as they fear the other would hate them if they knew. "The Man Who Owned a World," pencils by Vic Carrabotta, inks by Jack Abel; A hateful man who bullies his stepson realizes in the last moments of his life that the one person who hates him most in the world is himself. "The Right Bait," art by Vic Carrabotta; A hunter falls prey to a canny jungle monster who lays a trap of treasure for greedy men. "The Star Men!," art by Dick Ayers; Aliens telepathically instruct a boy on how to build a rocket to their planet; When he arrives, they interview him about what life is like on Earth. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 16
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #1278451002
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    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #0010634-AB-003
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    Cover by Harry Anderson. "Vampire Tale," art by Doug Wildey; A man wrapped in bandages is on trial for murder after slaying a vampire. "The Curse" text story. "Man Alone!," art by Al Eadeh; Communists get the idea to swap a spy for the village idiot in a centrally located village by taking a hermit and training him to pass for the idiot. "The Man Who Wasn't," art by Bill Walton; A man invents a youth serum and wishes to give it to the oldest member of an old folks home, but the man doesn't want it. "The Vultures," art by Mannie Banks; Unknown to his children, a man leaves his estate to the ones who attend his funeral. "The Question!," art by Vic Carrabotta; An inventor who loves his wife asks an electronic brain which he devised two questions, 'When will my wife die?' and 'When will I die?' 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #17
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 17

    "He Took It with Him," art by Paul Hodge. "Machine Age!," art by Sid Check; Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. "The Thing that Walked!," art by Robert Q. Sale. "Sweet Death" text story. "The Death of Danny!," art by Harry Anderson; A man's TV programs come through in 3-D, which he takes advantage of to acquire possessions until he takes a woman from "The Monster Takes A Bride." "Midnight on Black Mountain," art by Mort Lawrence; A woman with a terminal illness falls in love with a man named Walter who is indifferent to her; She offers him everything but he says he would never marry a witch. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #18
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 18
    • Moisture damage.

    "The Man Who Went Back!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. "Hate Is the Master" text story. "The Hidden Man!," art by Ed Moline; A mysterious sniper who has shot seven people in the city park turns out to be a monkey in the nearby zoo who somehow acquired a gun. "He Wouldn't Stay Dead!," art by Bill Walton; A man conducts rites that reincarnate his shrewish wife's spirit into a figurine, but the new person, whom he names 'Jolie', is a kind and supportive ideal wife. "The Swami!," art by Mort Lawrence; A crook forces his stepson to commit crimes for him but one victim is a swami who turns the man's greed against him. "The Worst Thirst," art by Ed Winiarski; Two brothers are incensed that their neighbors have put down a well that has dried up the well on their property so they lay pipe to divert the water back down to the well on their property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #19
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 19
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #0308370010
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • 2" cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Cover and interior oxidation. Interior staining. Staple rust with migration and deterioration.
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    Cover by Sol Brodsky. "Behind the Locked Door!," art by Pete Tumlimson; When a man with a robotics researcher as a girlfriend gets a robot from her, it builds itself a girlfriend robot. "The Ray Machine," art by Tony DiPreta. "The Un-Human!," art by John Forte; When an alien spy assumes the shape and mind of a servant of the top scientist in the country in order to learn of Earth's defenses, he absorbs some of the goodness of the man's soul, and thus does not reveal to his evil alien masters that they will be destroyed when they attack Earth. "The Little Things!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Howard Post; A man finds that the oriental figures his wife buys somehow turn into the real thing when they are broken; He wants to be rid of her, so he buys a rattlesnake figurine. "It Waits In the Tank!," art by Vince Colletta; When a man acquires a strange sea creature it slowly transfers into his body and switches minds, leaving him inside the tank starring out at the alien being which has seized his form. "The Witch Burning," art by Ed Winiarski. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    3 days left Auction Journey Into Mystery #19 (1954) Atlas VG (4.0) Colletta! Forte! GoldenAge! Nice!

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  • Issue #20
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 20
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0308370011
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    Cover art by Carl Burgos. "Quick-Change!", art by Pete Tumlinson; A guy in love with an evil woman tries to woo her with an amulet which changes him into legendary creatures but she steals it to commit robberies; After one success she realizes that she doesn't know any more legendary creatures so she rushes into the library with police right behind her. "The Man in Black!" text story. "After Man...What?", script by Paul S. Newman, art by Bob Powell; A man discovers that Starlings have actually come from the moon and are planning on displacing humans on Earth. "Hector!", art by John Tartaglione; A woman who has a robot servant for a husband is the envy of all the other neighborhood women. "The Messenger!", script by Paul S. Newman, art by Jack Abel; A warehouse employee from the future gets the foreman taken away as a mental case after he shows him impossible products. "The Crazy Car!", art by Bill Everett; When a stranger approaches Karl Baxter on the street and invites him to take a test drive in his car: a car that runs on no fuel of any kind, Karl decides to kill the old man and figure out a way to duplicate the engine in the car so that he can make a fortune....or so HE thinks! 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #21
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 21
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #0308371002
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    Cover by Joe Maneely. "Too Human!," pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito; Alien invaders adapt the same form of humans to learn their weaknesses but grow to like them, and when their masters demand they report in, they tell them that the humans are dangerous and smash the communicator. "The Cylinder!" text story. "The Missing Men," pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. "The Man With No Past," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Joe Maneely; An artist who's been working with a publisher for a year suffers from severe claustrophobia; His boss refers him to a psychiatrist who puts him under hypnosis. "The Hog!," art by Joe Kubert; A reckless driver enjoys being the 'road hog' so much he designs mirrors to magnify the expressions of his motorist victims; A hitchhiker berates him for his behavior and tells him someday you'll "meet a bigger hog than yourself." "The Hidden Vampire!," art by Fred Kida; An American reporter investigating stories of a vampire in Hungary meets his end when he realizes that the castle he's been poking around in is itself the vampire in disguise. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    3 days left Auction Journey Into Mystery #21 (1955) Atlas Fine- (5.5) Maneely cover! GoldenAge! CGC!

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  • Issue #22
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 22
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #3937476006

    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.

  • Issue #23
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 23

    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.

  • Issue #24
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 24
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0329308005

    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.

  • Issue #25
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 25
    Auction opens April 6
    • 1" spine split from bottom. Cover oxidation.

    Cover art by Carl Burgos. "The Man Who Lost Himself!," art by Vic Carrabotta; Aliens remove a man's memory so that he will not disclose their presence. "Make a Wish" text story. "At Your Service!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Jack Katz; This story is told from the point of view of a genie who makes selfish wishes boomerang on people but grants unlimited wishes to the selfless. "The Little Man!," pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Ernie Bache; A man who thinks himself unimportant unintentionally foils a plot of a couple of terrorists to bomb the UN building. "Foster's Fate!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Ann Brewster; A soldier wants his buddy to meet his sister but he has already fallen for a girl he's met. "Miracle On Maple Street!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Joe Sinnott; A puppeteer's puppets exhibit excellent carpentry skills to give an old town a makeover in response to a mayor's request. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $350 JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #25 CGC 2.0 Atlas Comics 1955 Classic UFO Cover

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  • Issue #28
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 28
    • 1" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Scuffing on front of case
    • Label #0002998-AC-009
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    Cover art by Carl Burgos. "They Wouldn't Believe Him!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A woman three thousand years hence flees into the past to avoid marrying a bore. "The Masterpiece" text story. "The Last Chance," art by Paul Reinman; 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. "The Hole in the Ground!," art by Bob Brown; Aliens from another dimension kidnap people in an apartment building. "Jigsaw!," art by Doug Wildey; A man buys a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces fly out of his hand as he tries to place them. "The Survivor!," art by Dave Berg; A man washes up on a beach populated by tiny people. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #29
    Journey into Mystery (1952) 29
    • Water damage.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #0309275005
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    Cover by Joe Maneely. "Three Frightened People," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; A soldier's spirit shows up in time to save his family from three escaped convicts. "The Wish" text story, art by John Forte. "The Black Book," art by Manny Stallman; An evil sea captain reads a spell from a book of black magic wishing for a sea calm as a "sea of glass" and winds up inside of a bottle. "Mr. Know-It-All," script by Carl Wessler, art by John Forte; A carnival operator is in cahoots with Moon men. "Into Thin Air!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Ed Winiarski; Elephants go to another planet when they die. "Someone Is in My Room," art by Bob Brown; A sick person's spirit rests up in his room while his body goes to work. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.