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Issue: Journey into Mystery #69
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #69 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/06/1961
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 April 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.

Tied with Patsy Walker (Marvel, 1945 series) #95 (on sale date the same) as first use of MC brand, which is considered to be the first use of the company being called Marvel Comics in the 1960s.

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 15, Part 2, Number 1, Periodicals, January-June 1961. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B895314.
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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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I Was Captured by Korilla!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Korilla
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #12 published July 1971
as I Was Captured by Korilla! [Illustration on Cover, Front]relettered and with other alterations
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Was Captured by...Korilla!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Korilla
Synopsis: A cab driver uncovers an alien plotting an invasion of Earth. The police won’t believe him, but he foils the invasion on his own and the aliens are killed by their masters for their failure.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #7 published January 1961
as I Was Captured by...Korilla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #12 published July 1971
as I Was Captured by... Korilla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-189
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part 1 (6 pp) and part 2—"The Secret of...Korilla!" (7 pp).
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Tricky Travel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
Synopsis: A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #48 published August 1956
was Tricky Travel [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-19
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Iron Giant!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, western
Character(s): Ben Perkins; Wharton
Synopsis: A train conductor in the Old West, who loves his locomotive, is robbed by bandits and left in the wilderness to die, but the bandits are chased to justice by the suddenly-animated locomotive.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKid Colt Outlaw #164 published November 1972
as The Iron Giant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRanchserien #6 [1974] published June 1974
as Jernkolossen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #188 published January 1979
as The Iron Giant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: The Iron Giant!
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-190
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When Darkness Falls!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A man sees mannequins move during the business hours of the store, and stays until closing. When the mannequins step down from their positions he berates them for nearly being caught, since he was another living mannequin all along.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #13 published January 1972
as When Darkness Falls!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #188 published January 1979
as When Darkness Falls!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: When Darkness Falls!!
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-191

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