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Issue: Journey into Mystery #64
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #64 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 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.

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:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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I Battled Rorgg, King of the Spider Monsters!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rorgg; Tim Johnson; Ann
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rorgg; Tim Johnson; Ann; Frank Johnson; Fred
Synopsis: A spider-like alien invades a small New Mexico town. No one can stop him except for a boy who reads science-fiction comics, who shows the value of imagination by killing him with a spray can of DDT.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #7 published January 1961
as I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as I Dared to Battle...Rorgg King of the Spider Men!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #4 published March 1994
as I Dared to Battle... Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-992
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Rorrg next appears in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994). The Frank Johnson in this story is not the same character as the creator of Zzutak from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961).
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The Weatherman

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
Character(s): Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms
Synopsis: In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #49 published August 1956
was The Weatherman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-71
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Found the Lair of...the Lizard Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Eric Kane
Synopsis: A convict escapes and hides in a cavern, where he finds a society of lizard men unable to breathe on the surface. When he tries to steal the diamond that provides their light he is transformed into a lizard man and forced to live among them as an outcast.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #6 published December 1966
as I Found the Lair of... the Lizard Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-1000
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. For some reason, a "Dread African prison camp" contains only white convicts and guards.
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I Must Find Korumbu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Hugo Barge; Korumbu
Synopsis: A fat man who wishes to lose weight without giving up overeating goes to Korumbu for a magic potion. Korumbu tells him it is too dangerous at first, but when the fat man threatens to sic the authorities on the gypsy camp, Korumbu gives him the potion. He drinks, and passes out. When he comes to, the gypsy camp is gone, and he finds the potion has worked too well. He is constantly losing weight and if he stops stuffing his face even for a moment, he is in danger of wasting away to nothing. He spends the rest of his days searching for Korumbu.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as I Must Find Korumbu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-10
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Who Is the Ape Man?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bruno Storme; Pierre Duval; Kazar
Synopsis: A bullying strong-man torments the animals in the circus where he works. He is humiliated and beaten by a mysterious strong-man, who turns out to be a gorilla disguised by its trainer, who is a chimpanzee in disguise.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-999

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