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Issue: Journey into Mystery #76
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #76 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Large Font Price in Circle
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in November 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

This cover variant needs to be verified; the grainy quality of the scan suggests it was blown up from a much smaller image and possibly scanned a house ad or something similar and not from a copy of the comic.
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Disclose Format
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 Variants4
Disclose Reprinted In6
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Genie with the Light Brown Hair

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mike Morgan
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Genie with the Light Brown Hair!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mike Morgan
Synopsis: A man finds a genie and uses it to fulfill his selfish whims. The genie finally persuades him to let him return to his bottle, but tricks him into allowing himself to be trapped there too.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #8 published April 1971
as Le génie aux cheveux châtain clair! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-459
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Tricky Travel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
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: Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds 48
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery #57
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery #69
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-19
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Mind Over Matter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A thief meets a lama in the foothills of the Himalayas and is amazed by the feats that he can accomplish with yoga. When he considers using the lama's powers of disappearance for crime the lama uses them to will him into non-existance.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #5 published December 1970
as L'esprit domine la matière [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-460
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Follow the Leader

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Lindsey
Synopsis: Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. They narrowly escape.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four #9 published November 1971
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #27 published March 1974
as Follow the Leader [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #23 published ?
as Follow the Leader [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-458
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Escape to...Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Krane
Synopsis: A convict in a prison hospital is set to return to death row when he is better so he doesn't want the doctor to dismiss him. A fellow prisoner across the room has a window view and the convict is pleasantly surprised to learn that there are no bars on the window. He resolves to make a break for it after nightfall, but when he slips out the window, he learns the reason there are no bars is that the hospital room is several stories above the ground.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #5 published February 1971
as Evasion vers... le néant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-461

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