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Issue: Journey into Mystery #79
Publication Date: April 1962
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Issues: #79 of 125 Issues (183 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands February 1, 1962, according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website and January 23, 1962, according to Bob Bailey. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Midnight Monster!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Victor Avery
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Midnight Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Victor Avery; Bill Cooper
Synopsis: When handsome, scientist, playboy Victor Avery is rejected by a girl he turns himself into a monster to wreak revenge on her fiancé only to become his own victim.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-594
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) also drawn by Jack Kirby.
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Secret Mission

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever
Synopsis: A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-487
Disclose Notes: The first page of this story is printed between the pages of "The Midnight Monster", while the second page is printed between "Wings of the Butterfly!" and "The Speed Demon". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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The Man Who Played Dead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A midget disguises himself as a dummy to gain access to homes to rob them. When he murders someone while robbing their home the police do not see through his disguise, but they put him in a trunk where he will suffocate.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-596
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Wings of the Butterfly!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Eric Krane
Synopsis: In the year 2050 Eric Krane is a spaceman who collects butterflies only to find himself trapped on planet where butterflies collect men.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Average monthly circulation October 1960–September 1961 (issues #65–75, despite monthly cover dates): 182,090.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: This shares the last page of "Secret Mission".
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The Speed Demon

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult, science and technology
Character(s): Speedy Simms
Synopsis: Speedy Sims races his car so recklessly he is doomed to race around the rings of Saturn forever.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) also by Lee and Ditko.

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