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Issue: Journey into Mystery #54
Publication Date: September 1959
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Issues: #54 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 June 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. From this issue to issue #63 (December 1960), virtually all new stories in this series are narrated in the first person.

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:  
Disclose Reprinted In5
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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I Unleashed Monstro on the World!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monstro; Spellbinder [Sam Binder]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Unleashed Monstro on the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Spellbinder [Sam Binder]; Moko; Monstro
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #146 published January 1974
as I Unleashed Monstro on the World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-350
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Music Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-804
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Dared to Defy...the Idol's Curse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dunstan Blake
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-348
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My Other Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jason Gibbs; Professor Rectorus
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #146 published January 1974
as My Other Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStar Wars Weekly #93 published December 1979
as My Other Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-362
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I Know the Gargoyle's Secret!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Jacques-Pierre Duval
Synopsis: A Frenchman fascinated with gargoyles joins the resistance in WWII. When he is captured a strange beast saves him, and after the war he sees tell-tale bullet holes on the gargoyles he loves.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #146 published January 1974
as I Know the Gargoyle's Secret! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-354
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I Am the Menace from the Purple Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gxenu; Mark VIII
Synopsis: An alien arrives on Earth on a mission of peace. The humans are suspicious of him and try to hold him hostage, but they find they have only captured a robot, while the disappointed alien returns home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #146 published January 1974
as I Am the Menace from the Purple Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-353

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