| Issue | #49 |
| Published | November 1958 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Journey Into Mystery had been on hiatus since the "Atlas Implosion". Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Characters | Eric Wolton; Josef Fuhmar; Otto Grotz |
| Synopsis | A man invents a gas that makes people 30 feet tall. While everyone is giant-sized, he goes around looting the town. He forgets to store enough oxygen bottles, so he removes his mask and has to breathe in his own gas. He gets stuck in the subway until the gas wears off. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | John Forte |
| Inks | John Forte |
| Characters | "Edward Wallace"; Dr. Masters; Dr. Sanford; Mr. Lemaire; Mr. Turner; Tommy; Chief Brennan |
| Synopsis | Sociologists investigate a totally harmonious town, and find that the people were shamed into better behavior by their persecution of a stranger who turned out to be an alien with a mirror face. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Alfonso Greene |
| Inks | Alfonso Greene |
| Notes | Art credits and job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Original art credit: Bernard Baily. |
| Characters | Agent X |
| Synopsis | Aliens make the mistake of stealing an Egyptian solar ship from the museum when they need a boat to make last minute adjustments to a bomb set to detonate in the ocean. The solar ship flies them to the sun. |
| Genre | science fiction; occult |
| Pencils | Matt Fox |
| Inks | Matt Fox |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Marcus Gabel; Martha Gabel; Richard Redding |
| Synopsis | A jade Buddha begins to possess its owner until the man even begins to resemble the fat statue. His wife frees the man by smashing the statue. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Sol Brodsky |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Cal Donner; George Cobern; Dr. Harley Morgan |
| Synopsis | Two swindlers get taken by a conman who tries to sell them a gold-making machine. The machine accidentally transports them into their own past, back to the beginning of their prison sentence. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
| Inks | Ed Winiarski |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Mr. & Mrs. Oston Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross |
| Synopsis | An extraordiinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards. |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | John Tartaglione |
| Inks | John Tartaglione |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (May 1957) |
| Characters | Paul Afton |
| Synopsis | An unemployed actor comes across a room with two billion cards in it which assigns all human beings their role in life. A loudspeaker takes requests from people who wish to change their roles. When the actor is refused his request for a new role, he threatens to expose the setup, and the loudspeaker voice reassigns the man's role from actor to mental patient. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Sid Check |
| Inks | Sid Check |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |