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Issue: Journey into Mystery #78

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Publication Date: March 1962

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Issues: #78 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.

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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)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Distributed to newstands January 2, 1962 (according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website and December 21, 1961 according to Bob Bailey. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

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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 #78 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #78 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Sorcerer!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Lucy Scott; Aaron

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Pages: 1

Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Kraggoom; Derek Wolfington

Synopsis: An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Time Machine

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: G-85

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Sorcerer

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Lucy Scott; Aaron

Synopsis: A stranger appears at a gas station and asks for a job. He has mysterious powers, and is eventually attacked by supernatural beings. They agree to leave him alone, but only if he gives up his powers.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-532

Monsters on Mercury!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ben

Synopsis: On Christmas eve, the first group of astronauts to land on Mercury encounter a group of friendly telepathic aliens who make them a Christmas tree.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: This book came around Christmas 1961 and this is science fiction Christmas story. The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

The Clutching Hand

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Charlie; Mike

Synopsis: The producers of an oddities exhibit strike it rich when a suspended hand appears in their booth. The more honest one discovers that the hand is part of a stranded extra-dimensional being and frees it, enraging his crooked partner, who takes the profits and leaves, leaving his partner to collect a reward in gold from the being.

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Pages: 5

Notes: The last page includes an advertisements for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).