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Issue: Journey into Mystery #74

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Publication Date: November 1961

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Issues: #74 of 125 Issues (180 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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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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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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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 #74 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #74 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Thing in the Black Box; Midnight at the Wax Museum

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Dan Harper; Bob Crane

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Pages: 1

The Thing in the Black Box!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Dan Harper; Pandora

Synopsis: A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-377

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is retold in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #3 (February 1970) as "Something Lurks on Shadow Mountain" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.

The Remedy Oil

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm

Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-984

Notes: Text story with illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Midnight in the Wax Museum

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bob Crane

Synopsis: An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound. When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. He flees and summons the police, who attack the aliens with tear gas. The entire wax museum begins to shudder and the whole building lifts off into space. They leave behind a book which states that their intent was to pass along beneficial knowledge, but the humans are too dangerous and perhaps they will return in a thousand years.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-378

The Mechanical Men!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Patrolman Patrick Smith; Z-4

Synopsis: An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-404

Forever Is a Long Long Time!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems

Synopsis: A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-379

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Can Live Forever!" drawn by John Forte, in issue #55 (November 1959). The original has a more sympathetic main character and a happy ending.

Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).