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Issue: Journey into Mystery #73
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in August 1961. This issue 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.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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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The Spider Strikes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
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Where Will You Be, When...The Spider Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
horror
Prof. Robert Carter
A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. The creature is bombarded by the atomic rays and grows to a huge size, gaining the power to think and speak, and then attacks the humans. The physicist tricks the spider into snagging a test missile in its web and when it climbs towards it, the missile detonates and kills the spider.
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Miscellaneous
7
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The Thread

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
occult
Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne
The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
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Miscellaneous
2
A-786
Text story with illustration. The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952.
Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
What Lurks on Channel X?

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bill Jones; Ruth Jones; Mr. Cragley; Jordan
A couple with a nasty landlord get a free TV set from a stranger. It is a device sent by aliens to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. The couple snap out of the hypnosis and the aliens from Pluto realize that their plan has failed and leave Earth. It turns out the landlord took down the antenna that the couple had set up to improve reception of the set, and the couple express their overwhelming gratitude to the puzzled landlord.
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Miscellaneous
6
V-345
Narrated in the first person.
Menace from Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
science fiction
Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient.
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Miscellaneous
5
V-346
One Look Means Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
Subject Matter
occult
Charles Grey; Sarah Grey; Medusa the Gorgon
A couple moves to a cursed castle and the man discovers the imprisoned Medusa. When her powers do not affect him she thinks they have disappeared and accidentally turns herself to stone, not knowing the man is blind.
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Miscellaneous
5
V-347
This story has never been referenced in any other Marvel story using Medusa or the other figures of Greek mythology.

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