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Issue: Journey into Mystery #74
Publication Date: November 1961
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Issues: #74 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: 08/31/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in August 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 In9
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Thing in the Black Box; Midnight at the Wax Museum

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror, science fiction
Character(s): Dan Harper; Bob Crane
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Thing in the Black Box!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Dan Harper; Pandora
Synopsis: A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #30 [unnamed variant] published September 1974
as The Thing in the Black Box! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-377
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is retold in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #3 (February 1970) as "Something Lurks on Shadow Mountain" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.
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The Remedy Oil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #54 published April 1957
was The Remedy Oil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-984
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Midnight in the Wax Museum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bob Crane
Synopsis: An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound. When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. He flees and summons the police, who attack the aliens with tear gas. The entire wax museum begins to shudder and the whole building lifts off into space. They leave behind a book which states that their intent was to pass along beneficial knowledge, but the humans are too dangerous and perhaps they will return in a thousand years.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four #7 published April 1971
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #10 published January 1971
as Minuit au musée de cire [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-378
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The Mechanical Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Patrolman Patrick Smith; Z-4
Synopsis: An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #3 published October 1970
as Les hommes mécaniques! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe X-Men #93 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1975
as The Mechanical Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-404
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Forever Is a Long Long Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems
Synopsis: A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #18 [unnamed variant] published August 1975
as Forever Is a Long Long Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #217 published January 1987
as Forever Is a Long Long Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-379
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Can Live Forever!" drawn by John Forte, in issue #55 (November 1959). The original has a more sympathetic main character and a happy ending.

Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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