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Issue: Journey into Mystery #71
Publication Date: August 1961
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Issues: #71 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
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 June 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:  
Disclose Reprinted In5
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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I Brought the Roc to Life!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #10 [unnamed variant] published April 1971
as I Brought the Roc to Life!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]with additions; with additional art
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover signed "Ditko" on the Jeep.
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I Brought the Roc to Life!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery
Synopsis: Two newlyweds in Egypt uncover a huge egg in the sand that hatches into the Roc in the warm sunlight. The monstrous bird flies around gathering parts of bridges, trains and other items to use in constructing a nest until the scientist that uncovered the egg gets the idea to build a robotic duplicate that flies into outer space, enticing the Roc to follow it in its forlorn quest for a mate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #10 [unnamed variant] published April 1971
as I Brought the Roc to Life! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-267
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"The Roc Lives Again!" (7 pp).
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Zero of Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Pearson; Prof. Thomas Benton; Father Time
Synopsis: A scientist's machine transports him and a reporter outside of time and into the realm of Father Time.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Weird Worlds #7 published June 1952
was Zero of Time [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9689
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Boy Who Vanished!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Billy Carter; Alana
Synopsis: A lame boy wills himself to the future and his legs are healed before he sends himself home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as The Boy Who Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-268
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The Painting

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Simon Squeed
Synopsis: An art dealer who buys quality paintings at rock-bottom insulting prices from poverty stricken artists and then sells them for thousands attempts to steal a beautiful painting from a gypsy who refuses to sell it. The dealer has the gypsy arrested on a trumped up charge and burgles the man's wagon to remove the painting. When the gypsy is released because the man cannot be found he knows why and goes to the art dealer's apartment to retrieve his enchanted painting, finding the art dealer now a part of the picture.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #6 published May 1971
as The Painting [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Adventures #24 published May 1974
as The Painting [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 2 edited out
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-263

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