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Issue: Journey into Mystery #68
Publication Date: May 1961
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Issues: #68 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in February 1961. 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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Disclose Reprinted In8
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Behold the Face of Spragg! Conquerer of the Human Race!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Spragg
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMystic Bumper Book #[nn] published January 1964
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Spragg Conqueror of the Human Race!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Spragg (introduction, origin); Prof. Bob Robertson (introduction, last name not given)
Synopsis: Spragg, an outcast of his race, is forced to the surface of the Earth in Transylvania, where he enslaves the local villagers and forces them to build him a device to boost his powers. A visiting scientist figures out how to rid the planet of Spragg, and flings him into space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #15 published January 1972
as Spragg Conqueror of the Human Race! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-160
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter one (6 pp) and chapter two—"Spragg" (7 pp). Spragg and Prof. Robertson next appear in Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel, 1989 series) #31 (September 1991).
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The Utopia

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
Synopsis: Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #53 published September 1956
was The Utopia [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-188
Disclose Notes: Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Where Walks the Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Big Monk McGak; Mr. Zero
Synopsis: An escaped convict looks to buy a house that has the reputation of being haunted so people will steer clear of him, but when he meets up with a real estate agent turns out to be the ghost that haunts the prospective property, he turns himself in to the police for his own protection.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHIP Classics #19122 published January 1969
as Wat goed dat er spoken zijn [Story on Interior Page(s)]oorspronkelijke titel: "Where Walks the Ghost"
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #16 [unnamed variant] published April 1972
as Where Walks the Ghost [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #117 published September 1975
as Il regno del fantasma! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #3/1987 published January 1987
as Spøkelset [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as Where Walks the Ghost [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-159
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The Man From Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Krunk; Luxurr
Synopsis: A dishonest carnival owner hires an amnesiac to play a Martian and cheats him on his wages. When the man regains his memory, he realizes that he really is a Martian, sent to Earth to capture a human for the zoo, and so he takes the crook with him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #15 [unnamed variant] published February 1972
as The Man from Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-161
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.

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