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Issue: Journey into Mystery #86

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Publication Date: November 1962

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Issues: #86 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/04/1962

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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in September 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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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

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Journey into Mystery #86 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #86 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man

First Line: How can I defeat the Tomorrow Man when he can fade into a different year before I reach him??

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Tomorrow Man [Arthur Zarrko] (introduction, origin); Jane Foster; Odin (introduction, cameo)

First Line: Behold, Thunder God... you pursued me into the future, only to meet your doom at the hands of my steel slaves!

Synopsis: Zarrko of the year 2262 goes back in time and steals a cobalt bomb in 1962, but Thor chases him forward in time and defeats him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: [V-913]

Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"Flight to the Future" (8 pp). The Tomorrow Man next appears in issue #101 (February 1964). Job number not listed in comic, came from the splash page of the original art.

Weather Man

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay

First Line: There was trouble in the air.

Synopsis: The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: [G-931]

Notes: Text story with illustration. Story title is from The Mighty Thor Comics Index #5 by George Olshevsky.

Humans, Keep Out!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ezra Grumley

First Line: Even in the scientifically advanced year of 1975, there are still people who perform menial tasks!

Synopsis: Humans are distressed to discover that the Venusians believe them to be hostile and have built robots to destroy any expedition that lands. A humble janitor thinks of building identical robots, reasoning that the Venusian's robots will not attack things like themselves, allowing peaceful contact to be made.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: [V-914 ?]

The Changeling!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

First Line: Sometimes a change can be a good thing... sometimes it can be disastrous!

Synopsis: An ugly king threatens a sorcerer with death unless he makes the king "the most handsome male" so the sorcerer turns him into a swan.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-915