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Issue: Journey into Mystery #62

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Publication Date: November 1960

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Issues: #62 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Distributed to newstands in July 1960. 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. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.

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

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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

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Journey into Mystery #62 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Here Comes... The Hulk

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Hulk [Xemnu]; Joe Harper

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Pages: 1

I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Hulk [Xemnu, later called "the Titan"] (introduction, origin); Joe Harper

Synopsis: An electrician finds and revives an alien criminal. He psychically enslaves all humanity, forcing them to build him a ship that will help him escape and destroy the Earth. The electrician sabotages the ship and sends him into orbit around the Sun.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: T-913

Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: Chapter 1—"The Coming of the Hulk!" (7 pp) and Chapter 2—"Slaves of the Hulk!" (6 pp). The Hulk next appears in Journey Into Mystery #66 (March 1961).

This is one of the first two 'feature-length' monster stories published by Marvel (the other was "I Created Krang!" published simultaneously in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #14). Three months later, these stories would be added to all four Marvel SF anthologies, and the next year a fifth series including them would be launched.

Strange Mission

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith

Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-440

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Frank Miller; Dr. John Redfield; Laddie; Pharaoh

Synopsis: A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world. His friend hypnotizes a dog and proves that it cannot understand complex questions. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-909

I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Silas Bleede

Synopsis: A greedy businessman tries to cut down an ancient tree and is attacked by its branches during the night.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-888