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Issue: Journey into Mystery #72

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Publication Date: September 1961

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Issues: #72 of 125 Issues (181 Printings)

Title:

Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN:

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

Editor(s):

Notes: 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. A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price, cover month removed and Thorpe & Porter distribution appended to indicia.

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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

Format Notes:

Variants2

Journey into Mystery #72 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #72 [UK Cover Price]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

The Glob!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Glob

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Glob

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Glob

Synopsis: A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-304

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part 2—"The Glob!" (7 pp)

The Sorcerer

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton

Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: H-203

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

The Patient in Room 3D

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-305

Will This Be the End of the World?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-306