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Issue: Journey into Mystery #56
Publication Date: January 1960
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Issues: #56 of 125 Issues (183 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/01/1959
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 October 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In6
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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I Brought Zog the Unbelievable Back to Life!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zog
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #6 published May 1971
as I Brought Zog the Unbelievable Back to Life! [Illustration on Cover, Front]partial
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Brought Zog Back to Life!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charles Burton; Zog
Synopsis: An alien giant is found in a glacier, causing fear of what might happen if it gets free. A scientist thinks that the fear is dangerous and frees it, finding that the alien is harmless.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #6 published May 1971
as I Brought Zog Back to Life! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-497
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I Spent a Night in the Haunted Lighthouse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): John
Synopsis: A man visiting a coastal town is stranded in an abandoned lighthouse during a storm and sees a ghostly ship and pirates arrive. Next morning he finds a life preserver from the Flying Dutchman.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as I Spent a Night in the Haunted Lighthouse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #146 published January 1974
as I Spent the Night in the Haunted Lighthouse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-507
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I Planted the Seeds of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hank Garnett
Synopsis: A space explorer sells the seeds of an alien plant, before finding to his horror that the plants spawn monsters. He uses the monster’s need for water to escape and stop the growth of more like it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #6 published May 1971
as I Planted the Seeds of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-501
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Underground

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Doyle Fairless; Sandy Clark
Synopsis: A man is thought mad for designing underground homes, until everyone moves underground and surface-dwellers are thought mad.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #34 published October 1955
was Underground [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-894
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 24, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Shrunk Away to Nothing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Brad; Prof. Ace
Synopsis: A man needs to raise money for his brother's medical treatment and so he answers an ad from a scientist seeking to test a shrinking ray. He agrees to be the subject and the ray works. He finds himself shrinking past microscopic objects and finally finds himself in a new world. When he asks a native what this world is called, he receives the answer 'Earth'.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #6 published May 1971
as I Shrunk Away to Nothing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-487
Disclose Notes: This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961) as "The World Beyond" (also drawn by Ditko).

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