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Issue: Journey into Mystery #61
Publication Date: October 1960
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Issues: #61 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in June 1960. 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.
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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 In8
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Here Comes Gomdulla the Living Pharoah!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gomdulla
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #12 [unnamed variant] published August 1971
as Here Comes Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh! [Illustration on Cover, Front]re-touched and re-inked
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Defied Gomdulla--The Living Pharaoh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gomdulla; Paul
Synopsis: An ancient alien robot disguised as an Egyptian mummy-god is reactivated, and forms a cult until it is foiled by a policeman and his own high priest.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #12 [unnamed variant] published August 1971
as I Defied Gomdulla--The Living Pharaoh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-858
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Lucilles's Robot [sic]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lucille Swart; Arnold Swart; Rogo the Robot; Frank Swart; Jimmy Swart; Officer Murphy; John Winters
Synopsis: An engineer presents his wife with a robot to do her housework. He believes he is playing a prank, but the robot is real.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Weird Worlds #19 published June 1953
was Lucilles's Robot [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: C-473
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 Enter the Haunted Forest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Zorn
Synopsis: A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #13 published October 1971
as I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-859
Disclose Notes: 'Zorn' seems to have been a stock character of Don Heck. This one bears a physical resemblance to Roderic Zorn in the previous issue, but the similarity ends there.
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I Opened the Door to...Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTower of Shadows [Special] #1 published December 1971
as I Opened the Door to Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #17 published September 1972
as I Opened the Door to...Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday Annual #1 published November 1975
as I Opened the Door to... Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #161 published January 1976
as I Opened the Door to... Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-884
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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The Curse of M'Gumbu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): M'Gumbu
Synopsis: An African tribe ignores their witch-doctor's admonishments against raiding, believing that his vow never to harm another makes him helpless. When they try to kill him he shrinks the entire tribe to protect others.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #7 published May 1972
as The Curse of M'Gumbu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-860
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.

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