Journey into Unknown Worlds (1951 2nd Series) comic books 1956-1969

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Ed Winiarski, Dick Ayers, John Forte and Bill Everett. In this issue: "He Hides in the Night!" by Carl Wessler and Paul Reinman - Lew goes to rob what he thinks is a downed dirigible but it's actually a Mercurian spaceship...a man aboard the ship offers diamonds to Jones for his help so Lew aids him back to his own ship, where the man reveals he's a Martian...they take off in the Martians' ship but the Mercurians pursue and damage the Martian craft, crippling it in outer space; 2-page text story "The Strange Stone" - Johnny finds a magic wishing stone, but wishes it away because magic would make life no fun; "He Never Grew Old!" with art by Ed Winiarski - Crater appears only 50 yet is 100 years old...Jason trails him to learn his secret and sees Crater drink from the Fountain of Youth...when Jason drinks it he regresses to childhood and completes his report knowing the Fountain of Youth is real; "It Happened to Finnegan!" with art by Dick Ayers - O'Hara loves horses and believes in reincarnation...he dies and comes back as the race horse Miracle, winning a fortune for Finnegan...he can still speak English too; "The Living Dream!" by Carl Wessler and John Forte - Timmy and Flapflap both fall ill and are slowly dying, but then appear to each other in their dreams and make each other well; and "The Flying Saucers!" by Carl Wessler and Bill Everett - Unable to get an architecture job due to lack of experience Lionel becomes a pilot and sees a flying saucer...ridiculed for his claims, Lionel loses his job but uses a helicopter to reach the vessel and enter it...the inhabitants are survivors of the planet Albus, fleeing their world's destruction...Lionel designs homes for them to live in on Earth and with this experience finally gets a job as an architect. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Carl Burgos. The Village That Cried!, art by Syd Shores; Space explorers do not recognize the life forms that they land amidst. The Old House text story. Mental Block, pencils by Bob Forgione, inks by Jack Abel; A bird-like alien spy who adopts human form develops a fear of birds and a psychologist attempts to get at what is behind this mental block. What Lurks Out There!, art by Bob Powell; Humans decode a message from space warning other aliens to beware of the human presence on Earth. The Man-Hunters, art by Jim Mooney; A persecutor of humanoids reads a book that states his parents were humanoids so he calls off his crusade and joins them in the subway tunnels where they have been forced to live. Life Or Death, art by Bob Brown. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sol Brodsky. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Doug Wildey, Bernie Krigstein, Werner Roth, Dick Ayers and Dave Berg. Was there really "No Sign of Life!" or was it just that Armand Kastel couldn't see it?! Find out in this tale with art by Doug Wildey. Also in this issue: "The Man Who Couldn't be Reached!" with art by Bernie Krigstein; 2-page text story "The Pitcher"; "The Terrible Treasure!" with art by Werner Roth; "The Sea Waits for Me!" with art by Dick Ayers; and "Forever Is Too Long" by Carl Wessler and Dave Berg. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sol Brodsky. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Bob Forgione, Bob Powell, John Forte, Carl Burgos, Joe Orlando, Paul Reinman and unknown. He can't see him...he can't hear him...but he knows that..."Someone Is Waiting!" with art by Bob Forgione. Also in this issue: "Where the Dinosaurs Roam" with pencils by Bob Powell; "The Blue Men!" by Carl Wessler and John Forte; "The Wrong World!" by Carl Wessler and Carl Burgos; 2-page text story "The Strong Man"; "Enchanted Town!" by Carl Wessler and Joe Orlando; and "They Come By Night" by Carl Wessler and Paul Reinman. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Sol Brodsky. The Night Visitor, art by Steve Ditko; A man investigates a flying saucer and bumps his head inside; When he comes to, he finds that he can't interest anyone in authority about the various flying saucers he sees, and he learns that while he was unconscious he was transported to Jupiter. The World Beneath the Sea, art by Al Williamson; A skin diver finds a race of people living beneath the sea. Journey of No Return, art by Bob McCarty; An attendant of a carnival is surprised to learn that the Ferris wheel is a method for returning alien visitors back to their homes. The Derelict in Space, art by Ed Winiarski; Space explorers find a deserted satellite in space with a diary entry about aliens offering to take the crew away to paradise. The Comic text story. And Never Come Back, art by George Roussos. Man Against the Moon, art by John Forte. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. "The Specimen!", art by Jim Mooney; A zookeeper who had hoped to be an engineer is disconcerted by an ape-like specimen with wide staring eyes which turns out to be an alien; The alien transfers the knowledge of how to build spacecraft to the zookeeper so that he can show other engineers how to visit alien planets. "Three Were Lost!", art by Vic Carrabotta; Three brothers test fly an experimental jet which travels so fast it breaks the time barrier; The leader of the future asks them not to tell of what they have seen and they return to their own time. "If Worlds Collide," script by Carl Wessler, art by John Forte; Earth leaves its orbit and heads towards Mars, getting colder; A scientist builds a giant magneto in order to restore the planet's orbit. "Rain from Nowhere!", script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Bob Bean; A cargo plane enters a strange cloudburst and when it exits the heavy rain the crew find themselves in a unknown village; They fix the pumps to drain away water from heavy rain and fly back out the way they entered. "The Experiment" text story. "Falling Star!", art by Kurt Schaffenberger; A confused alien who thinks that he is returning home is dropped off by accident on Earth; He sends a signal and his comrades pick him up. "The Giants," pencils by Bob Forgione, inks by Jack Abel; A space explorer decides he's had enough after he encounters giant space aliens. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Bob Forgione, Vic Carrabotta, Syd Shores, Mac L. Pakula, Herb Familton, George Roussos and unknown. In this issue: "They Wait in the Shadows" with pencils by Bob Forgione; "The Iron Men" by Carl Wessler and Vic Carrabotta; "The Girl Who Vanished" with pencils by Syd Shores; "No Escape" with art by Mac L. Pakula; 2-page text story "The Legend Tribe"; "The Strangers" with art by Herb Familton; and "A World There Was" with art by George Roussos. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Gray Morrow, Paul Reinman, Reed Crandall, Howard O'Donnell, Frank Bolle and Sid Check. "The Handy Man" -- what was his unknown secret? Find out in this tale with art by Gray Morrow. Also in this issue: "Which World Is This?" by Carl Wessler and Paul Reinman; "Don't Leave Me Alone" with art by Reed Crandall; "Fair Exchange!" with art by Howard O'Donnell; 2-page text story "Tricky Travel"; "The Man Who Framed the Future!" by Carl Wessler and Frank Bolle; and "Unwanted" with art by Sid Check. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Russ Heath. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Joe Maneely, John Forte, Robert Q. Sale, Kurt Schaffenberger, Harry Lazarus and Vic Carrabotta. The world wasn't ready for the..."Invasion of the Metal Men!" by Carl Wessler and Joe Maneely. Also in this issue: "I Am Nobody!" with art by John Forte; "The Moon for Sale!" with art by Robert Q. Sale; "For Ever and Ever" with art by Kurt Schaffenberger; 2-page text story "Trouble Bubble"; "The Man Who Never Was!" by Carl Wessler and Harry Lazarus; and "Address Unknown!" with art by Vic Carrabotta. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. The Fog!, art by Paul Reinman. I Entered the Forbidden Land!, art by Herb Familton; a story featuring the legendary Tibetan land of Shangri-La, which first appeared in Lost Horizon by James Hilton. When the City Trembled, art by Reed Crandall. Stranger Than Fiction!, art by John Forte. Bird Talk text story, art by Marie Severin. Quarantine. Cyclops, art by Jack Davis; A WWII destroyer is torpedoed in the Mediterranean; one boatload of survivors, including Capt. Niles Ulysses Barret, come ashore on an island where they recapitulate the adventure of Odysseus and his crew with Polyphemus the Cyclops, as related in Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. Who Is Nokki?, art by Joe Sinnott; An opportunist meets his doom pursuing gold in the mountains. He Was Nobody!, art by Wally Wood; A magician leads a group of townsfolk in saving their town after a flood. How I Made a Small Fortune in Spare Time! I'm Afraid to Shut My Eyes!, art by Bob McCarty; An artist finds himself pulled into a painting when he goes to sleep. The Faceless Man!, script by Carl Wessler, art by Steve Ditko; An alien spy is confronted by his comrades and remembers the sterile civilization of his home planet. He chooses to remain among the happiness and love he has found on Earth. The Wishes text story, art by Marie Severin. Inside the Dark Cave, art by John Severin; a leprechaun story. Our Strange Neighbors, art by John Forte; Bigots who drive away alien settlers regret their actions when they see how well the aliens developed their land in only a few days. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Maneely. "The Ice-Creatures Cometh!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Dick Ayers; A greedy man finds creatures buried in ice who promise him gold if he helps them in their conquest. "They Met at Midnight!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Werner Roth; An old man falls in love with a young woman so he searches for some way to make himself young; He is told of a man who can paint a picture of him youthful which will transform him and he seeks him out. "Grains of Sand" text story. "When the Moon Vanished!", art by Robert Q. Sale; The moon disappears; A glory hound flies a rocket up to investigate; He meets aliens who inform him they represent a galactic council and have made the moon disappear so their base will not be detected. "The Pig That Prowled!", art by Vic Carrabotta; A scientist invents an intelligence boosting serum, and when he tests it out on himself, he comes up with the idea of having a gang commit robberies and blame it on a super intelligent guinea pig who has escaped his lab. "A World to Conquer," art by Larry Lieber; An inventor of a teleporting device sets his sites on claiming Mars for Earth, but is beaten to the punch by a Martian who has gotten the same idea about Earth. "Dinosaur-at-Large," script by Carl Wessler, art by Paul Reinman; A man invents a radio which allows him to listen in on his son from the future; The boy has gotten in trouble with a dinosaur which has hatched from an egg. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Bob Powell, Reed Crandall, John Forte, Ed Winiarski, Robert Q. Sale, Tony DiPreta and Don Heck. In this issue: "Lost...One World" with art by Bob Powell - A man creates a time machine that sends him back in time, but not quite the way he had intended; "The Invisible Thieves!" by Carl Wessler and Reed Crandall; "The Victim" by Carl Wessler and John Forte; "A Voice from Nowhere!" with art by Ed Winiarski; "When We Awake" with art by Robert Q. Sale; "When the Eggs Hatch" with art by Tony DiPreta - A man finds a note in a jar that been left in a cave describing alien eggs that had landed on Earth inside of meteors...he goes off to alert authorities to search inside of caves for the eggs; and 2-page text story "The Dry Earth" with illo by Don Heck, reprinted from Marvel Tales (1949-1957 Marvel/Atlas) #139 (original title: "Weather Man") - The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bill Everett. "Inside the Pharoah's Tomb," art by Richard Doxsee; A thief represses his memory of being locked in the museum tomb exhibit twenty years ago, so when it happens to him again, he mistakenly believes he is the reincarnation of the Pharaoh and resolves to follow the straight and narrow. "What Cries In The Cage?", script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Bob Powell; A sorceress gets revenge on pirates who slew her husband by shrinking them into small cages. "He Stalks in the Streets," art by Herb Familton; An actress fools a jilted admirer into believing that she never stopped loving him so that he does not have her murdered. "The Destroyers," art by Ed Winiarski; Three scientists discover a power that they intend to rule the world by and are eliminated by God. "The Little People" text story. "Needle in a Haystack," art by Sol Brodsky; A man with a pirate treasure map is in the right location, but he won't find the treasure because it was buried on a floating island which has since drifted into another spot. "Nowhere," art by Angelo Torres; A cyclotron acts as a time machine for a thief who steals seventy-four thousand dollars and has to hide in a cave for twenty years avoiding dinosaurs. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bill Everett. Menace of the Humanoids, art by Don Heck; An engineer building the first satellite finds himself attacked by thugs in humanoid costumes. King of the Glacier Men, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Ralph Mayo; A European dictator is exiled to the North where he becomes king of the glacier men. The Men in the Mole!, art by John Forte; Three men in a mole-like drilling device find a world underground populated by sorcerers. The Ghost Wore Armor, pencils by Bob Forgione, inks by Jack Abel; An explorer looks to steal golden armor from the natives. Lost in Time text story. Shangri-La, art by Bill Everett; A man makes it back from Shangri-La only to be informed that the man he spoke with, whom he takes to be mad, actually left for the valley four hundred years ago. The Puppets of Pierre Garou, art by Reed Crandall; A puppeteer shrinks people who try to rob him and uses them in his show. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by John Severin. The Man Who Went Too Far!, art by Richard Doxsee; A scientist invents a cosmic magnet that brings down a ghost-like inhabitant of space. They Won't Die!, art by Pete Morisi; A man finds that he and his friends all have Wolverine's healing factor. These humans with incredible healing powers are called the "other men. Your Life for Mine!, art by Marvin Stein; A scientist builds a time travel device that requires someone from the present return to the past if one from the past is brought forward. It All Adds Up text story. The Wrong Choice!, art by Werner Roth; A pirate captain finds himself in Atlantis and granted one wish. The Voice in the Night!, art by Frank W. Bolle. In 1944 a captured US soldier hates the German sergeant who goads him into attempting an escape after he finishes carving a wooden doll for his daughter. The Impossible, art by Bill Everett. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Joe Orlando, Syd Shores, Marvin Stein, Ed Winiarski, Fred Kida, Richard Doxsee and unknown. In this issue: "The Man in Black!" with art by Joe Orlando; "Smash-Up!" with pencils by Syd Shores; "The Man Who Stole the Sun!" with art by Marvin Stein; "When Vernon Vanished" by Carl Wessler and Ed Winiarski; "It Happens at Night!" with art by Fred Kida; "Someone Is Following" with art by Richard Doxsee; and 2-page text story "Precious Marble," reprinted from Mystic (1951 Atlas) #49 (original title: "Lost Marble"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Richard Doxsee, Frank Bolle, Joe Maneely, Mort Drucker, Sol Brodsky, Ross Andru and unknown. How can a ship be sinking in a sea of grass? Don't miss..."Graveyard" with art by Richard Doxsee. Also in this issue: "Who Waits in the Fog!" with art by Frank Bolle; "Age of the Iron Men!" by Carl Wessler and Joe Maneely; "The Thought Stealer!" by Carl Wessler and Mort Drucker; "He Hides By Night!" with art by Sol Brodsky; "I Dare You to Move!" with pencils by Ross Andru; and 2-page text story "The Little Green Man," reprinted from Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) #51 (original title: "Over the Moon"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Bill Everett. The Dreadful Disc!, art by John Forte; A thief uses a disc that reduces his height to ten inches so his pursuer catches him with a mousetrap. I Wake Up Screaming, art by Richard Doxsee; When a criminal attempts to start over as an amnesia victim by altering his looks and using hypnosis to implant a mental block, the doctors trip him up by creating a fantasy wherein he must save the person he cares most about and he screams out his own name. Shock at Seven O'Clock, pencils by Ted Galindo; The ten year anniversary of a pirate attack signals doom for the pirate captain and his crew as the ghosts from an old victim catch up with them. The Strange Warning!, art by Ruben Moreira; A businessman has a premonition about a plane going down that saves his life. Out of this World text story. A Shaggy Wolf Tale!, pencils by Al Williamson. The Man Who Lived Twice!, pencils by Al Eadah. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.