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Issue: Journey into Mystery #78
Publication Date: March 1962
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Issues: #78 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: 01/02/1962
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 December 21, 1961 according to Bob Bailey. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress (typo in listing).
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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.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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The Sorcerer!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Lucy Scott; Aaron
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #180 published January 1986
as The Sorcerer! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #49 published ?
as The Sorcerer! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Planets #16 published ?
as The Sorcerer! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kraggoom; Derek Wolfington
Synopsis: An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #9 [unnamed variant] published February 1971
as Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught An Astronaut! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #100 published ?
as Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Time Machine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #57 published March 1957
was Time Machine [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-85
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Sorcerer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Lucy Scott; Aaron
Synopsis: A stranger appears at a gas station and asks for a job. He has mysterious powers, and is eventually attacked by supernatural beings. They agree to leave him alone, but only if he gives up his powers.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-532
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Monsters on Mercury!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ben
Synopsis: On Christmas eve, the first group of astronauts to land on Mercury encounter a group of friendly telepathic aliens who make them a Christmas tree.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #7 published February 1967
as Monsters on Mercury! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrazy Magazine #79 published October 1981
as Mistake on Mercury! [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title "Monster on Mercury"; same art but new dialogue and lettering
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This book came around Christmas 1961 and this is science fiction Christmas story. The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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The Clutching Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie; Mike
Synopsis: The producers of an oddities exhibit strike it rich when a suspended hand appears in their booth. The more honest one discovers that the hand is part of a stranded extra-dimensional being and frees it, enraging his crooked partner, who takes the profits and leaves, leaving his partner to collect a reward in gold from the being.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisements for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

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