Journey into Mystery (1952) comic books 1957-1959

Cover by Bill Everett. "Farley's Other Face," script by Carl Wessler, art by John Forte; A man steals a thousand dollars from a recluse that he had pretended to befriend, then pays to have his looks altered and fingerprints removed to avoid trouble with the police. "Life Sentence," script by Carl Wessler, art by Robert Q. Sale; A man gives a prisoner time-traveling pills in exchange for the knowledge of where the bank roll is hidden because he knows the past can't be changed. "The Curse of Ojiir," art by Pete Morisi; When two jewel thieves attempt to steal a cursed diamond they find themselves aged prematurely. "He Saw the Future" text story. "Humans...Keep Out!," pencils by George Roussos, inks by John Giunta; Scientists are driven off the moon by lifeforms that they themselves engineered to live without oxygen so as to colonize the moon. "The Savages," art by Angelo Torres; This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble. "The Disappearing Man," script by Carl Wessler, art by Gray Morrow; A fight manager has his wife stolen from him when he signs up a Venusian who can disappear in the ring at will. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. "It's Waiting For Me," art by Jay Scott Pike; A man and his dog have a recurring nightmare in which some hostile presence is waiting for him just around a bend in the road; His wife dislikes the dog as its cries during the dreams disrupt her sleeping. "The Invisible Woman"; An invisible female terrorist strikes in the heart of a Communist country. "The Third Ear," script by Carl Wessler, art by John Forte; A convict with a device that lets him read minds acts as a stoolie for the prison warden. "The Secret of the Strange Stone," pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Ralph Mayo; A man finds a meteorite that gives off rays that make things disappear. "Living Portrait" text story, art by Al Williamson. "The Panhandler," script by Carl Wessler, art by Bernard Baily; A panhandler robs time-travelers from 1991 and is arrested for passing counterfeit bills. "Ghost Ship," script by Carl Wessler, art by Jim Mooney; Modern day pirates are thwarted in their efforts by a ghost ship. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

"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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "Menace from Mars!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; Martians threaten to invade Earth, but an intelligent human intimidates them by demonstrating his mastery of the strongest animals on Earth. "The Utopia" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Man With the Atomic Brain!," art by Steve Ditko; A man gains powerful psychic abilities from his parents exposure to radiation, and he is hunted by the government until a hidden group of like-powered people contact him and bring him to their community. "Trapped on Earth"; Alien conquerors create a sentient gas and send it to Earth to mentally enslave a human in order to test their readiness for conquest. "Travelers in Time!," art by Carl Burgos; A screenwriter pitchs a director a movie theorizing that haunted houses are the arrival points for time travelers from the future, but he thinks the story is too far-fetched. "Invasion from Outer Space!," art by Joe Sinnott. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"Only Twelve of Us May Live!" with art by Joe Sinnott; "Beware of Tomorrow!" with art by Steve Ditko; "The Stranger in Space!" with art by John Forte; "Shadows in the Night!" (art by Sinnott?); "He Made the Machines Go Mad!" (art by Don Heck?); and a two-page text story, "The Spirit." Jack Kirby cover pencils. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "I Found the Giant in the Sky!," art by Steve Ditko; A homely professor discovers the cloud kingdom of the giants and finds happiness there with a beautiful princess. "Strange Encounter" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "I Can Live Forever!," art by John Forte; A scientist studies redwoods looking for the secret of eternal life. He nearly meets disaster when he tests the formula on himself, and finds that to become immortal he must become immobile. "My Neighbor's Secret!," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; An eccentric moves into a desert town and begins building a boat. "I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!," art by Don Heck; A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.