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Issue: Journey into Mystery #73
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #73 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: 08/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in August 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 In7
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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The Spider Strikes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Where Will You Be, When...The Spider Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Prof. Robert Carter
Synopsis: A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. The creature is bombarded by the atomic rays and grows to a huge size, gaining the power to think and speak, and then attacks the humans. The physicist tricks the spider into snagging a test missile in its web and when it climbs towards it, the missile detonates and kills the spider.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #8 published September 1971
as Where Will You Be, When...the Spider Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-344
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The Thread

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne
Synopsis: The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #13 published October 1952
was The Thread [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: A-786
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952.
Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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What Lurks on Channel X?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bill Jones; Ruth Jones; Mr. Cragley; Jordan
Synopsis: A couple with a nasty landlord get a free TV set from a stranger. It is a device sent by aliens to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. The couple snap out of the hypnosis and the aliens from Pluto realize that their plan has failed and leave Earth. It turns out the landlord took down the antenna that the couple had set up to improve reception of the set, and the couple express their overwhelming gratitude to the puzzled landlord.
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In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #9 published October 1971
as La menace du Canal X? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #5 published November 1971
as What Lurks on Channel X? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #1 published December 1993
as What Lurks on Channel X? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-345
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Menace from Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #5 published November 1971
as Menace from Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-346
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One Look Means Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Charles Grey; Sarah Grey; Medusa the Gorgon
Synopsis: A couple moves to a cursed castle and the man discovers the imprisoned Medusa. When her powers do not affect him she thinks they have disappeared and accidentally turns herself to stone, not knowing the man is blind.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #5 published October 1970
as Un seul regard veut dire mort! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #5 published November 1971
as One Look Means Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-347
Disclose Notes: This story has never been referenced in any other Marvel story using Medusa or the other figures of Greek mythology.

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