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Issue: Journey into Mystery #70
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #70 of 125 Issues (181 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: 05/02/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in May 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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Disclose Reprinted In10
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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The Sandman Cometh!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Sandman (alien); Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #82 published January 1971
as The Sandman Cometh! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #150 published January 1981
as The Sandman Cometh! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as The Sandman Cometh! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Sandman Cometh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Sandman (alien) Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson
Synopsis: A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #13 published October 1971
as The Sandman Cometh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as The Sandman Cometh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-225
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp).
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Bird Talk

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #50 published October 1956
was Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-424
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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A Thousand Years

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult, science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Jordan; The Devil ?
Synopsis: A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #6 published October 1973
as A Thousand Years [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as A Thousand Years [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-226
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Stone Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Dralla/Drallas (both names are used)
Synopsis: An old man prays to the statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbors cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Mighty World of Marvel #56 published October 1973
In Content Item: FlagKull, the Destroyer #12 published February 1974
as The Stoneman [Story on Interior Page(s)]pp1–2, p3: panels 2, 4–6, p4: panels 2, 4–5, p5, reformatted
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as The Stone Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-224

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