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Issue: Journey into Mystery #51
Publication Date: March 1959
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Issues: #51 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: 12/1958
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in December 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered.

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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Disclose Content Items (7 total)
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Robot on the Rampage!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Supreme Calculator
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as Robot on the Rampage [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #185 published January 1979
as Robot on the Rampage [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ghost Ship of Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Frank Brandon; Ben; Charlie; Smitty
Synopsis: A reporter investigates a series of spaceship disappearances and is captured by primitive aliens. He forces them to free him by pretending that a simple gadget is a powerful bomb.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRace for the Moon #17 published January 1964
as The Ghost Ship of Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as The Ghost Ship of Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-156]
Disclose Notes: This story is set in 2705.
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Mystery Pupil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude
Synopsis: A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #52 published October 1956
was Mystery Pupil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-382
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Creatures in the Volcano

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tubuai; Mauiki
Synopsis: A chief of a Pacific island tribe finds aliens in a volcano preparing to conquer Earth. He thinks his people will not believe him, so he instead agrees to sell the island to the US for nuclear tests, which destroys the aliens.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRace for the Moon #17 published January 1964
as The Creatures in the Volcano [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as The Creatures in the Volcano [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrazy Magazine #65 published August 1980
as The Creatures in the Volcano [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-153
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The Prison Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Vaalu (narrator); Uxmal (in framing sequence)
Synopsis: 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. The mother planet was Mars, and the prison planet Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as The Prison Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-155
Disclose Notes: This story is narrated by some kind of alien "watchers", bearing no resemblance to the later Watchers.
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Alien on Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An alien lands on Earth, but cannot be understood. The humans attack it out of fear, and finally drop a nuclear bomb on it. The alien leaves, not out of fear, but because its attempt to make peaceful contact has shown that humans are barbarians.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as Alien on Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as Alien on Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-165
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Robot on the Rampage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Supreme Calculator
Synopsis: A supercomputer and its army of robots enslave humanity, but it is stopped when a janitor unplugs it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as Robot on the Rampage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as Robot on the Rampage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-135
Disclose Notes: This story is set in the late 22nd century. No relation to an identically titled story drawn by Ditko in Tales to Astonish #18.

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