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Issue: Journey into Mystery #75
Publication Date: December 1961
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Issues: #75 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1961 (September 19 according to Bob Bailey, September 26 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website). 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.
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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 In15
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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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Lo-Karr Bringer of Doom!; Mr. Gregory and the Ghost!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Lo-Karr; Lucius P. Gregory
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as The Earth Is Doomed --When Lo-Karr Stalks!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]top part of cover
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Lo-Karr, Bringer of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lo-Karr
Synopsis: As international tensions mount, an alien lands and demonstrates its power before leaving, promising to return with an army. The world powers set aside their differences to prepare to defend themselves, but the alien was a robot created by a scientist hoping to inspire this reaction.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #6 published April 1971
as Lo-Karr, Messager de mort! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as Lo-Karr, Bringer of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-415
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby.
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Mister Gregory and the Ghost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Lucius P. Gregory
Synopsis: A homebuilder who uses shoddy materials and unskilled labor gets his comeuppance when he builds a home for himself out of the wood from haunted trees. He tries and fails several times to drive the ghost out of the house, but stubbornly refuses to admit failure. He bankrupts himself when he tries to move the entire house away from the ghost not realizing that the house itself is the ghost.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #5 published October 1966
as Mister Gregory and the Ghost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #8 published January 1971
as Maître Gregory et le Fantôme! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as Mister Gregory and the Ghost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: [V-414 ?]
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Venus!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Monangahela Munroe
Synopsis: The first explorer on Venus is caught in an old bear trap, but he is able to use the wildlife to call for help.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #32 published June 1962
as Venus! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #104 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1963
as Venus! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #245 published January 1988
as Venus! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #6 published October 1951
was The Hills of Venus [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 8745
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. All future reprints of "The Hills of Venus" used this title.
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The Magic of Mordoo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Franz Kopnik; Katrina Steuben; Mordoo
Synopsis: A man falls in love with a middle-aged woman on vacation, but wants a younger wife. He convinces her to let a gypsy magician make her young again, but once she's young and pretty she leaves him for the young attractive gypsy.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #4 published December 1970
as La magie de Mordoo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #9 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1971
as The Magic of Mordoo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSeriespesial #8/1985 published January 1985
as Mordoos magi [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-416
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The Man Who Lost the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruno
Synopsis: A scientist's assistant is determined to find if his time machine that sends objects into the past or future. He steals some gold ingots from the office and steps into the ray, knowing that he can never return to the present. When his journey ends, Earth is so primitive that he is cut off from all humanity, and he realizes that he still doesn't know whether the machine sends things into the past or future since it could be either the dawn or the end of time.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #6 published January 1971
as L'homme qui perdit le monde! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #9 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1971
as The Man Who Lost the World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #15/1985 published January 1985
as Mannen som tapte verden! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-417
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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