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Issue: Journey into Mystery #89
Publication Date: February 1963
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Issues: #89 of 125 Issues (181 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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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
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
18 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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
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Starring the Mighty...Thor! The Most Colorful Super Hero of All!!!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]
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First Line: Fill the gaps in your family's education with the amazing Made Simple Self-Teaching Encyclopedia
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The Thunder God and the Thug!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Jane Foster; Thug Thatcher (Mob Leader, introduction); Vince (introduction); Max (introduction); Ruby (introduction); Thatcher Mob (introduction); Odin (cameo)
First Line: What happens when, aided by guns and goons, a mortal gangster dares to defy a thunder-god!??
Synopsis: A gangster, wounded in an escape, has his men kidnap Dr. Blake to operate on his gunshot wound. Blake transforms himself into Thor and brings the gang to justice and rescues Jane as well.
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Job Number: X-29
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From Outer Space

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jonathan Ditmar
First Line: It had been expected for a long time, so it wasn't too much of a shock when the first visitors from outer space made contact with the world.
Synopsis: When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
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To Men who Want Big Money but Don’t Know How to Get Started

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Draw the First Day

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First Line: An amazing invention — ‘magic art reproducer’
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First Line: Look! Boys wanted to sell Grit
Synopsis: Ad to recruit sellers of Grit newspaper.
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First Line: Learn any dance fast!
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First Line: Live sea horses!
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Barker's Body Shop!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Carl Barker
First Line: If you want to know how it feels to make the biggest mistake of your life, then mister, just ask Carl Barker!!
Synopsis: A crooked mechanic hires a drifter to customize a car, promising enough money for him to get home. When he refuses to pay the man the drifter takes the car instead, which he converted to be able to fly him home to the stars.
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First Line: Reward $9,985.50 for this coin!
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Disclose Notes: Send $1.00 for catalog listing prices. The company will pay for rare coins.
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First Line: 1001 things you can get free
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Stamps; Shop by Mail

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First Line: Stamp collecting outfit
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When the Switch Is Pulled...

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. von Richter; Ludvig
First Line: Tell us honestly--do you believe it will ever be possible to travel in time??
Synopsis: A time machine seems not to work, but actually travelled in a complete loop through time back to its point of origin.
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104 Kings' Knights

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Character(s): Mike Marvel (photograph)
First Line: Boys! Men! My secret new Dynaflex method can build you a magnificent new he-man-muscled body in just ten minutes a day
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First Line: Learn radio television electronics by practicing at home in your spare time
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement to learn how to repair televisions and radios from the National Radio Institute. Located on inside rear cover.
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First Line: Make $5.00 to $20.00 a week extra operating this ‘Saturday morning shoe store’
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