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Issue: Journey into Mystery #62
Publication Date: November 1960
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Issues: #62 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in July 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.

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 Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In8
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Here Comes... The Hulk

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hulk [Xemnu]; Joe Harper
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #11 [unnamed variant] published June 1971
as A Titan Walks the Land! [Illustration on Cover, Front]with retouching by Marie Severin
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Monsters #[nn] published January 2006
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hulk [Xemnu, later called "the Titan"] (introduction, origin); Joe Harper
Synopsis: An electrician finds and revives an alien criminal. He psychically enslaves all humanity, forcing them to build him a ship that will help him escape and destroy the Earth. The electrician sabotages the ship and sends him into orbit around the Sun.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #11 [unnamed variant] published June 1971
as I Was a Slave of the Living Titan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "I Was the Slave of the Living Hulk!"
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Monsters #[nn] published January 2006
as I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: T-913
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: Chapter 1—"The Coming of the Hulk!" (7 pp) and Chapter 2—"Slaves of the Hulk!" (6 pp). The Hulk next appears in Journey Into Mystery #66 (March 1961).

This is one of the first two 'feature-length' monster stories published by Marvel (the other was "I Created Krang!" published simultaneously in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #14). Three months later, these stories would be added to all four Marvel SF anthologies, and the next year a fifth series including them would be launched.
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Strange Mission

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #45 published September 1956
was Strange Mission [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-440
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Frank Miller; Dr. John Redfield; Laddie; Pharaoh
Synopsis: A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world. His friend hypnotizes a dog and proves that it cannot understand complex questions. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #6 published February 1972
as There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-909
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I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Silas Bleede
Synopsis: A greedy businessman tries to cut down an ancient tree and is attacked by its branches during the night.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #8 published June 1972
as I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #2 published January 1994
as I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #1086 published ?
as Der Hüter des Tales [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-888

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