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Issue: Journey into Mystery #57
Publication Date: March 1960
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Issues: #57 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: 11/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in November 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 unless otherwise specified.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. Indicia frequency gives "monthly" instead "bi-monthly".
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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
Adult Image
Title Page
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Orogo! The Thing from Beyond!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Orogo
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1966
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #12 published November 1971
as Orogo! The Thing from Beyond! [Illustration on Cover, Front]relettered
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Orogo; Albert Carstairs
Synopsis: An alien robot arrives to hypnotically enslave the people of Earth, but is stopped when it cannot hypnotize one old man, a blind man.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1966
as Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #12 published November 1971
as Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as Orogo! The Nightmare from Outer Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-593
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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The Earth-Crawlers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Salt; Martha Salt
Synopsis: An inventor with a nagging wife must prevent giant roots resulting from a witch doctor's curse from overrunning Africa. He then turns to inventing a device which will harness the power of his wife's voice.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #12 published November 1971
as The Earth-Crawlers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as The Earth Crawlers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-592
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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Tricky Travel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
Synopsis: A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #48 published August 1956
was Tricky Travel [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-19
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 16, 24 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Metal Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mr. Mason; Grosko
Synopsis: An American engineer ignores the warnings of locals and builds a road through a Gypsy-inhabited wood. One of the gypsies causes his steam shovel to attack him until he agrees to stop building.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #12 published November 1971
as The Metal Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-597
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The Martian Who Stole My Body!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): John Warren; Spot; Zetora (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: A Martian criminal arrives on earth and switches bodies with a man, but the man's dog can still tell the difference between them, forcing the Martian to switch back.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #7 published May 1972
as The Martian Who Stole My Body! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #148 published January 1974
as The Martian Who Stole My Body! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-590
Disclose Notes: Zetora next appears in issue #58.

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