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Issue: Journey into Unknown Worlds #23
Publication Date: December 1953
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Issues: #23 of 58 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#s 37 [2] and 38 [3]); standard Silver Age US (#39 onwards)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Sol Brodsky
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Vampire's Fangs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A stowaway on a freighter is bitten by a vampire bat and transforms into a bat. After draining one of the crew of his blood, he hides in a casket that is being shipped over the ocean. Because of the weird goings on aboard, however, the superstitious crewmen dump the casket overboard.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: D-334
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The First Time Machine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harold Bevinson; Prof. Rall; Gen. George Washington (cameo)
Synopsis: A scientist and his friend build a time machine and witness several historical events, almost accidentally killing George Washington in the process.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #10 published March 1952
was Time-Stream Rescue [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The First Time Machine"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 9685
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The Men from Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Pakula (signed)
Inker(s): Mac Pakula (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 5
Job Number: D-171
Disclose Notes: Plot elements and ending reused in "The Creature from Krangro" in Tales of Suspense #30.
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The World's End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Colan (signed)
Inker(s): Gene Colan (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An astronomical disaster means the destruction of human civilization. Our story's protagonist is despondent over this state of affairs until he encounters a group of time travelers who are present to record the last days of humanity. One of them has a name similar to his own and tells him a small number of people will survive and pass down their names. This heartens the man as he now knows that he is destined to be one of the few who survive.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: D-166
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Weather Balloons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Peddy
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A scientist debates another about the nature of UFOs, as to whether they are invading aliens or weather balloons. The debate is brought to an abrupt halt as aliens burst in and take the group captive. The scientist is enraged and wants to throttle the other who kept insisting for years that UFOs were weather balloons. The other scientist removes a human face mask revealing an alien underneath and says "they were OUR weather balloons."
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Pages: 4
Job Number: D-112
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Crashing Through the Time Barrier!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Inker(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An astronaut finds Venus a mirror image of Earth.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: D-180

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