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Issue: Journey into Mystery #72
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #72 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: 07/1961
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 newsstands in July 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 Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In9
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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The Glob!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Glob
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #7 published July 1971
as The Glop! [Illustration on Cover, Front]partially redrawn and relettered
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Glob

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Glob
Synopsis: A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four #10 published January 1972
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four #11 published February 1972
In Content Item: FlagZombie #8 published January 1961
as The Glob [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #7 published July 1971
as The Glop [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled and minus 1 page
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-304
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part 2—"The Glob!" (7 pp)
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The Sorcerer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #130 published January 1972
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #1 published December 1955
was The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-203
Disclose Notes: Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Patient in Room 3D

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #4 published September 1970
as Le patient de la chambre 3D [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #7 published July 1971
as The Patient in Room 3D [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-305
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Will This Be the End of the World?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #7 published July 1971
as Will This Be the End of the World? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-306

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