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Issue: Journey into Mystery #96

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Publication Date: September 1963

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Issues: #96 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 (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 #96 [U.S. Cover Price]

Journey into Mystery #96 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Merlin the Mad!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Merlin [Maha Yogi]

First Line: Behold, Thor... your power is nothing compared to the mystic arts at my command!

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Pages: 1

Defying the Magic of... Mad Merlin!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Merlin [Maha Yogi] (introduction); Jane Foster; Loki (cameo); President John F. Kennedy (cameo); Caroline Kennedy (cameo); Pierre Salinger (cameo); King Arthur (cameo, flashback)

First Line: Hey, professor!

Synopsis: Merlin is awakened after a thousand years and immediately decides to try and take over the world. He battles Thor using familiar Washington D.C. monuments. Thor defeats Merlin and forces him to return to sleep.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Notes: This 'Merlin' was revealed to be an imposter in Avengers Annual #22. In most of his appearances he calls himself 'Maha Yogi'. He has been said to be a mutant, but this is also false.

The Traveler

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bill Swift; Mr. Allen

First Line: Bill Swift hated his set, daily routine.

Synopsis: A bored man working on an assembly line is taken to outer space in his dreams, and is given an idea for an otherworldly invention.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: [J-865]

Notes: Continues in next issue.

Call Her...Medusa!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): John

First Line: You who are mortal, beware!

Synopsis: The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled.

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Pages: 5

Marvel Comics Group Ushers in the Marvel Age of Comics!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Spider-Man; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Dr. Doom

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertises the Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (1963); Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963)[unpublished version with word balloons and backgrounds] and a blurb and logo announcing the X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series).

Frederick Fenton's Future!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Frederick Fenton

First Line: Frederick Fenton had one burning ambition--to visit the future!

Synopsis: An arrogant rich man builds a time machine in order gain the secret to eternal life from the future. When he arrives he finds that the Earth that humanity has gone to a paradise planet, and his time machine will not take him back.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-386

Notes: This is a retelling of "The Man in the Iron Box" drawn by Carl Burgos in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959); the earlier story uses suspended animation to achieve the same effect.