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Issue: Journey into Mystery #82
Publication Date: July 1962
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Issues: #82 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: 05/01/1962
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: Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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 In5
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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 Scorpion Strikes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): giant scorpion; Edward Bentley
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #7 published October 1973
as The Scorpion Strikes! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Scorpion Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Paul Rodgers; Edward Bentley
Synopsis: A scorpion is mutated by radiation and grows giant, gaining an evil intelligence. It is transformed back with another burst of radiation after being tricked into position by a hypnotist.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #7 published October 1973
as The Scorpion Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-741
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby.
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The Heat's On

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler
Synopsis: When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #44 published March 1957
was The Heat's On [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery #44
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery #63
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-366
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations. Artist credits from record of Journey Into Mystery #44.
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I Am the Prisoner of the Voodoo King!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A criminal being brought to prison from a jungle outpost escapes into the jungle. He happens upon a tribe worshipping a gold idol and steals it. He escapes his pursuers, but realizes that the idol is cursed: he can never put it down.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #3 published June 1966
as I Am the Prisoner of the Voodoo King! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #7 published November 1973
as I Am the Prisoner of the Voodoo King! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-742
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Next Galaxy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Zorr
Synopsis: In the thirtieth century, humanity becomes advanced but emotionless and brutally conquers the galaxy. They send an explorer to the next galaxy to find new conquests, but when he finds a totally peaceful world he is reminded that once some humans sought peace, and so lies to his superiors to protect the people of this world.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [V-743 ?]
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Take a Chair

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorgi Gruff; Adam Able; Mr. Vort
Synopsis: A furniture maker gets more than he bargained for when he attempts to eliminate a rival chair producer and finds out he is an alien in disguise creating robotic spies on humans.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #7 published October 1973
as Take a Chair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-744
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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