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Issue: Journey into Mystery #55

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Publication Date: November 1959

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Issues: #55 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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):

Notes: Distributed to newstands in July 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. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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Format

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:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- I Found the Giant in the Sky! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Strange Encounter [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Assets0

Content Items (7 total)

I Found the Giant in the Sky!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Prof. Dunn

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Found the Giant in the Sky!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Prof. Dunn

Synopsis: A homely professor discovers the cloud kingdom of the giants and finds happiness there with a beautiful princess.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Strange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as I Found the Giant in the Sky! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: [T-437 ?]

Notes: Only "T-" visible in story, job number surmised from other stories in issue. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Strange Encounter

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Andre Corday

Synopsis: An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Spy Thrillers #4 published May 1955
was Strange Encounter [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: G-47

Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

I Was A Prisoner of the... Ape Creatures!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Dunstan Blake

Synopsis: Blake lands on an alien world, where the telepathic natives look like cavemen. He is afraid of being dissected, but is instead is scanned with rays and sent back to Earth as uninteresting.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-438

I Can Live Forever!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Henry; Marge

Synopsis: A scientist studies redwoods looking for the secret of eternal life. He nearly meets disaster when he tests the formula on himself, and finds that to become immortal he must become immobile.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: T-439

Notes: This story is retold in issue #74 (November 1961) as "Forever is a Long Long Time!" drawn by Don Heck, and in issue #103 (April 1964) as "To Live Forever!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for the version in issue #103. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

My Neighbor's Secret!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Sam; Noah

Synopsis: An eccentric moves into a desert town and begins building a boat. Shortly afterwards, it begins to rain constantly and the man’s neighbour is shocked to discover his name is Noah.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: T-440

I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Strange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-436