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Issue: Journey into Mystery #80

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Publication Date: May 1962

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Issues: #80 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 March 1, 1962 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website and February 27, 1962 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 #80 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Won't You Step Into My Parlor?

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The cover art does not really depict any part of the story, there is no point when one of the two men is tiny and the other normal sized, neither of the characters on the cover resemble those in the story. Lee and Ditko are mentioned by name in a cover caption.

Won't You Step Into My Parlor...???

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Luther Krumhausen; Kunhn; Gruber; Darius Zamora

Synopsis: Herr Krumhausen prepares a giant room to deceive business competitor only to really shrink himself.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

Strange Mission

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith

Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-440

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Propaganda

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Boris Grozny; Ivan Grozny

Synopsis: Low level communist worker Boris Grozny is given a chance to avoid Siberia if he can stir up turmoil in an African nation. All he stirs up is trouble for himself with the native gods.

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Pages: 6

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Notes: The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby.

I Spent a Night in a Haunted House!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Tom

First Line: They called the house haunted!

Synopsis: A young boy who has just moved to town is convinced to spend the night in a haunted house. He doesn't find any ghosts but the next day realizes the house itself was the ghost.

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Pages: 5

Notes: This story is retold as "I Speak of the Haunted House!" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963). The fourth page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

The kids are shown reading comic books: Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense and they mention them by name.

For the Birds!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Borgon

Synopsis: Mr. Borgon is an unscrupulous hunter of rare animals in the future who finds himself trapped by his own deceit.

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Pages: 5

Notes: The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.