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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published February 1955
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Haunted House!"

Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "Mission On Earth"

Synopsis A fantasy writer is visited by aliens who wish him to teach them human emotions so that they can observe humans undetected. He is afraid if they learn the history of people, they will destroy civilization so that space travel does not threaten them. The last two emotions he teaches them are ambition and power, hoping that they will destroy themselves.
Reprinted in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "Strange Pursuit"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #15 (February 1953) [originally titled "The Phantom Flivver"]

4 page story "Haunted House"

Synopsis A man takes a bet to spend the night in a haunted house and ends up the ghost which haunts the house.
Pencils Howard Nostrand (+ ?)
Inks Howard Nostrand (+ ?)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Man Who Watched"

Synopsis An East German plots to murder his business partner and then get help from an Allied soldier stationed just across the border, but the soldier is actually a statue and does not respond to his plea.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Reprinted in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "The Blaster"

Synopsis Martian gun-runners arm select humans with advanced weaponry hoping that they will battle amongst themselves and leave them as easy pickings for an invasion force.
Pencils Moskowitz
Inks Moskowitz
Reprinted in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Human Germ"

Pencils Mort Lawrence
Inks Mort Lawrence
Notes "Fantastic Voyage" from the point of view of an assassin.
Reprinted in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)