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Issue: Journey into Mystery #77
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #77 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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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:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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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I Don't Believe in Ghosts!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mr. Jordan
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #34 published ?
as I Don't Believe in Ghosts! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Beware! He Isn't Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Eric Krugg; Diane Harper
Synopsis: A Hollywood special effects man builds an android to slay a woman who rejected his advances because she was "waiting". After he sends the robot to the museum where she works, he relaxes for a sufficient time, and then is startled when she appears at the door with the robot. She reveals that she too, is a robot, and she was "waiting" for a robot to be a mate. The two machines slowly approach him as he backs towards an open window which he falls through.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #10 published August 1967
as Beware! He Isn't Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-493
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The Radio

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): Bill Barton; Mr. Sparks
Synopsis: A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #133 published April 1955
was The Radio [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: F-946
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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I Don't Believe in...Ghosts!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mr. Jordan; Wilbur Weems
Synopsis: A man offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can show him a ghost but, time after time, he proves that there is a rational explanation behind the sightings. It turns out he does this because he is a ghost himself, and wants to prevent haunted houses from being demolished, rendering their occupants homeless.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #9 published June 1967
as I Don't Believe in.... Ghosts! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #7 published June 1971
as Je ne crois pas aux ... Fantômes [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: I Don't Believe In... Ghosts!
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-494
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) also drawn by Jack Kirby.
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When Aliens Walk the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Earth is terrified by the appearance of a flying saucer, but the people are relieved to see the aliens are small and elf-like. They explain that they are peaceful and open contact, changing after they leave into their true insectoid forms, which would have frightened the humans into attacking them.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four #8 published September 1971
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-495
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They Were Only Scarecrows!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Ben Hobbs; Reuben; Clem; Simon Hobbs
Synopsis: A man tries to get his uncle, who talks to scarecrows, committed to an asylum so that he can take over his farm. When he takes the sheriff out to speak with his uncle the sheriff returns visibly shaken and tells the nephew to butt out of the farmer's business. The farmer has revealed to the sheriff that the reason he talks to the scarecrows as his friends is that he himself is one.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-496
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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