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Issue: Journey into Mystery #85

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Publication Date: October 1962

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Issues: #85 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.

On Sale Date: 08/02/1962

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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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 #85 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #85 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Loki, the God of Mischief!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Loki

First Line: I challenge you to match your powers against mine, Thor!

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Pages: 1

Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Donald Blake]; Loki (introduction); Heimdall (introduction, cameo); Odin (introduction); Jane Foster; Balder (introduction); Tyr (introduction)

First Line: At last you've met your match, Thor!

Synopsis: Loki escapes from his prison in Asgard and comes to Earth to get revenge on Thor. The trickster hypnotizes him to help make mischief, but Thor’s transformation into Donald Blake frees him from hypnosis, allowing him to defeat Loki and return him to Asgard.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an unmarked first part (5 pp) and part two—"The Vengeance of Loki!" (8 pp). This is the first appearance of Asgard. Heimdall looks nothing like his later appearances. Odin's name is mentioned for the first time.

The first part is expanded and retold in Thor: First Thunder (Marvel, 2010 series) #2.

The Clock

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt

First Line: The snow fell quietly in the little Alpine village, and Franz Ammergau sat at his candlelit workbench and worked far into the night.

Synopsis: An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [K-9]

Filbert's Frightful Future!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Filbert Phelps

First Line: This is Filbert Phelps!

Synopsis: A greedy scientist builds a time machine to visit the future and make money, but he finds himself stranded in a void, since the future does not yet exist.

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Pages: 5

Off-Limits!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Rip van Winkle

First Line: Of all the planets in the known galaxy, this particular one was off-limits!

Synopsis: This story casts the character of Rip Van Winkle as a humanoid alien who visits planet Earth in violation of galactic travel guidelines which have declared the planet off limits due to its dormitive effect.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-867