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Issue: Journey into Unknown Worlds #55
Publication Date: March 1957
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Issues: #55 of 58 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#s 37 [2] and 38 [3]); standard Silver Age US (#39 onwards)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
First Line: It's The 'Glacier-Man!' He's Alive!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Menace of the Humanoids

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck (signed)
Inker(s): Don Heck (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An engineer building the first satellite finds himself attacked by thugs in humanoid costumes.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-233
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King of the Glacier Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Ralph Mayo
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A European dictator is exiled to the North where he becomes king of the glacier men.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #38 published October 1975
as King of the Glacier Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-205
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Men in the Mole!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Three men in a mole-like drilling device find a world underground populated by sorcerers.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-267
Disclose Notes: Plot elements in common with At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Chicago, 1914).
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The Ghost Wore Armor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: An explorer looks to steal golden armor from the natives.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-274
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Lost in Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #39 published June 1955
was The Stranger [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Lost in Time"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-76
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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Shangri-La

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man makes it back from Shangri-La only to be informed that the man he spoke with, whom he takes to be mad, actually left for the valley four hundred years ago.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #24 published August 1973
as Shangri-La [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEl Hombre de Bronce #3 published July 1975
as Shangri-La [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-241
Disclose Notes: Features the hidden Tibetan land of Shangri-La from Lost Horizon by James Hilton (London, 1933).
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The Puppets of Pierre Garou

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A puppeteer shrinks people who try to rob him and uses them in his show.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-126
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

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