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Issue: Journey into Mystery #49
Publication Date: November 1958
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Issues: #49 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in July 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Journey Into Mystery had been on hiatus since the "Atlas Implosion".

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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City of Giants!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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City of Giants

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Eric Wolton; Josef Fuhmar; Otto Grotz
Synopsis: A man invents a gas that makes people 30 feet tall. While everyone is giant-sized, he goes around looting the town. He forgets to store enough oxygen bottles, so he removes his mask and has to breathe in his own gas. He gets stuck in the subway until the gas wears off.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-371
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
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The Doctor Wears a Mask

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): "Edward Wallace"; Dr. Masters; Dr. Sanford; Mr. Lemaire; Mr. Turner; Tommy; Chief Brennan
Synopsis: 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.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-405
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The World-Destroyers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
Character(s): Agent X
Synopsis: 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 solar ship flies them to the sun.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: M-376
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The Little Green Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Marcus Gabel; Martha Gabel; Richard Redding
Synopsis: 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.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-399
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Morgan's Mad Machine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Cal Donner; George Cobern; Dr. Harley Morgan
Synopsis: Two swindlers get taken by a conman who tries to sell them a gold-making machine. The machine accidentally transports them into their own past, back to the beginning of their prison sentence.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-259
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Sdrawkcab

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. & Mrs. Oston Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross
Synopsis: An extraordiinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #58 published May 1957
was Sdrawkcab [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-18
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Room With Two Billion Cards!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Paul Afton
Synopsis: An unemployed actor comes across a room with two billion cards in it which assigns all human beings their role in life. A loudspeaker takes requests from people who wish to change their roles. When the actor is refused his request for a new role, he threatens to expose the setup, and the loudspeaker voice reassigns the man's role from actor to mental patient.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-461

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