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Issue: Journey into Mystery #66
Publication Date: March 1961
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Issues: #66 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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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 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 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
Digital Edition
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Title Page
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Cover, Front
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The Return of the Hulk!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hulk [Xemnu]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Return of the Hulk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hulk [Xemnu, later called "the Titan"]; Joe Harper
Synopsis: The Hulk returns from space and takes over a small town to get revenge on the human that defeated him. This human tracks him down and uses a mirror to turn the alien’s hypnotic powers back on him and destroy him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #14 published December 1971
as The Return of the Titan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-97
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp) The Hulk last appears in issue #62 (November 1962). He next appears as "Xemnu the Titan" in Marvel Feature (Marvel, 1971 series) #3 (June 1972).

Script credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
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The Talent

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Harry; Bobby; Oswald
Synopsis: A tramp can't convince a farm family that his talking dog is not a ventriloquist's trick.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #3 published April 1956
was The Talent [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-992
Disclose Notes: The first page of this story is printed between the pages of "The Return of the Hulk!", while the second page is printed between "The Black Ray" and "The Thing Behind the Wall". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Black Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hiram Drudd
Synopsis: An imprisoned criminal scientist pretends to make a medical device which is in fact a time machine. He sends his mind into the past to inhabit the body of 'the richest man' but is imprisoned once more, as the Count of Monte Cristo.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #6 published February 1972
as The Black Ray [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-104
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: This shares the last page of "The Talent". Average circulation of issues published October 1959–September 1960 (issues #56–64): 167,125.
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The Thing Behind the Wall!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Emil Fitch; Morak
Synopsis: A thief passes through a wall and is confronted by an evil entity that plans to invade Earth. He escapes, only to be arrested and jailed. He doesn’t know if it was real, but is too afraid to touch the wall of his cell and find out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #7 published May 1972
as The Thing Behind the Wall! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [V-96 ?]
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5)

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