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Issue: Journey into Mystery #53
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #53 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 April 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 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images3
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Notation
Marked Image
Penning in masthead.
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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When the Machines Went Mad

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Only Twelve of Us May Live!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sfeen; Makka; Urbaam
Synopsis: A rogue planet is headed for Canopus Minor and their escape craft can only evacuate 12 people. Sfeen finds a way to shrink everyone into miniature size so the entire population can fit.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-297
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The Spirit

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis
Synopsis: A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #49 published May 1956
was The Spirit [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-169
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Beware of Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mike Wellis; Joe
Synopsis: A stranger keeps correctly predicting calamities before they occur. Mike wonders how he could see into the future but the man responds he's from the future.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-???
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The Stranger in Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Frank Mason
Synopsis: A space traveller leaving for a distant star meets himself returning, since he had travelled back in time due to faster than light speeds.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as The Stranger in Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #20 published August 1975
as The Stranger in Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-294
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
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Shadows in the Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Elias Burbank
Synopsis: Elias believes there is another world parallel to his but invisible and cannot be glimpsed. Unable to prove it, he gives up trying to find Earth.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-295
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He Made the Machines Go Mad!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): XTT-4; Prof. Jonas Weems
Synopsis: XTT-4 attempts to seize control of all the machines on Earth but Weems gets near enough to press his deactivation button.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-290

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