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Issue: Journey into Mystery #52
Publication Date: May 1959
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Issues: #52 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: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in February 1959. 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.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Invasion From Outer Space!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lynn Hamilton
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #108 published June 1959
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #23 published January 1963
as Invasion from Outer Space! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #172 published January 1977
as Invasion from Outer Space! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #209 published January 1982
as Invasion from Outer Space! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The scene and characters depicted on this cover are from "Menace From Mars!" not "Invasion From Outer Space!".
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Menace from Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lynn Hamilton
Synopsis: Martians threaten to invade Earth, but an intelligent human intimidates them by demonstrating his mastery of the strongest animals on Earth.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-217
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is set in 2306.
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The Utopia

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
Synopsis: Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #53 published September 1956
was The Utopia [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-188
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Man With the Atomic Brain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ted Lestron; Karl Lestron
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #172 published January 1977
as The Man with the Atomic Brain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-217
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. This story is retold in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #14 (July 1962) as "The Man in the Sky!" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Stan Lee tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his authorship of the retelling.
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Trapped on Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Alien conquerors create a sentient gas and send it to Earth to mentally enslave a human in order to test their readiness for conquest. The gas accidentally possesses a ventriloquist's puppet, and is trapped, unable to control the mindless vessel.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: [T-221/4 ?]
Disclose Notes: Possible Burgos inks per Nick Caputo. Narrated in the second person.

This story is retold in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #65 (February 1961) as "Kragoo!" drawn by Don Heck. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Travelers in Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Norman Crane (Hollywood writer); Griffith Cartwright (movie producer)
Synopsis: 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. The writer is relieved, since he is such a traveler and his secret is therefore safe.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-223
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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Invasion from Outer Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harvey Adams; John Hughes; X233; X791
Synopsis: A robot army invades Earth, but they are forced to retreat by rusting the first time it rains.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #172 published January 1977
as Invasion from Outer Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-218

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