Journey into Mystery (1952) comic books 1955 or before

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"The Scarecrow," art by Russ Heath; Scrawny Tim Blake buys a magic potion to build up his muscles, which is very successful at first, until it sends his body out of control. "The Pact" text story. "Don't Look!," art by Jay Scott Pike; A madman offers to give an attorney a magic mirror that reveals how people will look in the future but there is a secret terrible cost. "How Clumsy Can Ya Be?," art by Howard Post; A would-be magician bungles his training in India, and when he returns to the States to begin his career, he bungles his first performance, too. "Thru the Door," pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz; A boxer's manager tries to persuade the boxer's wife to run away with him, but the boxer overhears and chases after them; They barricade themselves in a room, but the manager then learns that the woman is really a hungry vampire. The Hiding Place, art by Gene Colan; When Ann and her lover Paul are confronted by Ann's husband, she panics and kills him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"Hands Off!"; Eugene Varo designs artificial hands, and strives to imitate "the old masters" in that field; However, his creations are rejected by manufacturer Perry Nugent; Returning home, Varo is confronted by a ghostly figure who desires to take the hands back to the past, as "they are too beautiful for this age." "Revenge From Beyond" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Corpse!", pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Sy Barry; This story is narrated by the dead body of John Saxton; Before his death, he had been engaged to marry a woman named Barbara, but suspected her of having an affair with his brother Donald. "I Didn't See a Thing!", art by Louis Zansky; Running from the police, wanted criminal Ed Rocco ducks into a bar, where he meets a rather strange-seeming bartender; Rocco buys a drink in an attempt to quiet his nerves, but he soon sees the ghosts of the men he has murdered gliding into the bar and threatening to kill him. "The Stroke of Midnight!", art by Carmine Infantino; Bank president Ebenezer Grimm fires a longtime employee for being too "soft-hearted," and then he forecloses on the mortgage of an old woman, forcing her out of her house. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. "The Wrong World" [The Only Man in the World, Part 2], art by Jerry Robinson; The professor from the first story in the previous issue rebuilds the cyclotron that he destroyed in order to activate it and restore time to the moment just before humanity was wiped out. "Jack and Jill Went up the Hill!," art by Larry Woromay; A woman named Jill murders her stepbrother Jack while mountain climbing, and the tether between them drags her down as well. "Witch-Girl" text story. "Now You See It...," art by Sam Kweskin; When his wife threatens to leave him for the manager, the magician really does saw his wife in half. "The Assassin of Paris," art by Charles A. Winter; A thief picks the wrong mark when he targets a mindreader. "Vacation for Vincent," pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Harry Anderson. "Vampire Tale," art by Doug Wildey; A man wrapped in bandages is on trial for murder after slaying a vampire. "The Curse" text story. "Man Alone!," art by Al Eadeh; Communists get the idea to swap a spy for the village idiot in a centrally located village by taking a hermit and training him to pass for the idiot. "The Man Who Wasn't," art by Bill Walton; A man invents a youth serum and wishes to give it to the oldest member of an old folks home, but the man doesn't want it. "The Vultures," art by Mannie Banks; Unknown to his children, a man leaves his estate to the ones who attend his funeral. "The Question!," art by Vic Carrabotta; An inventor who loves his wife asks an electronic brain which he devised two questions, 'When will my wife die?' and 'When will I die?' 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"He Took It with Him," art by Paul Hodge. "Machine Age!," art by Sid Check; Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. "The Thing that Walked!," art by Robert Q. Sale. "Sweet Death" text story. "The Death of Danny!," art by Harry Anderson; A man's TV programs come through in 3-D, which he takes advantage of to acquire possessions until he takes a woman from "The Monster Takes A Bride." "Midnight on Black Mountain," art by Mort Lawrence; A woman with a terminal illness falls in love with a man named Walter who is indifferent to her; She offers him everything but he says he would never marry a witch. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Man Who Went Back!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. "Hate Is the Master" text story. "The Hidden Man!," art by Ed Moline; A mysterious sniper who has shot seven people in the city park turns out to be a monkey in the nearby zoo who somehow acquired a gun. "He Wouldn't Stay Dead!," art by Bill Walton; A man conducts rites that reincarnate his shrewish wife's spirit into a figurine, but the new person, whom he names 'Jolie', is a kind and supportive ideal wife. "The Swami!," art by Mort Lawrence; A crook forces his stepson to commit crimes for him but one victim is a swami who turns the man's greed against him. "The Worst Thirst," art by Ed Winiarski; Two brothers are incensed that their neighbors have put down a well that has dried up the well on their property so they lay pipe to divert the water back down to the well on their property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Sol Brodsky. "Behind the Locked Door!," art by Pete Tumlimson; When a man with a robotics researcher as a girlfriend gets a robot from her, it builds itself a girlfriend robot. "The Ray Machine," art by Tony DiPreta. "The Un-Human!," art by John Forte; When an alien spy assumes the shape and mind of a servant of the top scientist in the country in order to learn of Earth's defenses, he absorbs some of the goodness of the man's soul, and thus does not reveal to his evil alien masters that they will be destroyed when they attack Earth. "The Little Things!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Howard Post; A man finds that the oriental figures his wife buys somehow turn into the real thing when they are broken; He wants to be rid of her, so he buys a rattlesnake figurine. "It Waits In the Tank!," art by Vince Colletta; When a man acquires a strange sea creature it slowly transfers into his body and switches minds, leaving him inside the tank starring out at the alien being which has seized his form. "The Witch Burning," art by Ed Winiarski. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. "Quick-Change!", art by Pete Tumlinson; A guy in love with an evil woman tries to woo her with an amulet which changes him into legendary creatures but she steals it to commit robberies; After one success she realizes that she doesn't know any more legendary creatures so she rushes into the library with police right behind her. "The Man in Black!" text story. "After Man...What?", script by Paul S. Newman, art by Bob Powell; A man discovers that Starlings have actually come from the moon and are planning on displacing humans on Earth. "Hector!", art by John Tartaglione; A woman who has a robot servant for a husband is the envy of all the other neighborhood women. "The Messenger!", script by Paul S. Newman, art by Jack Abel; A warehouse employee from the future gets the foreman taken away as a mental case after he shows him impossible products. "The Crazy Car!", art by Bill Everett; When a stranger approaches Karl Baxter on the street and invites him to take a test drive in his car: a car that runs on no fuel of any kind, Karl decides to kill the old man and figure out a way to duplicate the engine in the car so that he can make a fortune....or so HE thinks! 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Maneely. "Too Human!," pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito; Alien invaders adapt the same form of humans to learn their weaknesses but grow to like them, and when their masters demand they report in, they tell them that the humans are dangerous and smash the communicator. "The Cylinder!" text story. "The Missing Men," pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. "The Man With No Past," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Joe Maneely; An artist who's been working with a publisher for a year suffers from severe claustrophobia; His boss refers him to a psychiatrist who puts him under hypnosis. "The Hog!," art by Joe Kubert; A reckless driver enjoys being the 'road hog' so much he designs mirrors to magnify the expressions of his motorist victims; A hitchhiker berates him for his behavior and tells him someday you'll "meet a bigger hog than yourself." "The Hidden Vampire!," art by Fred Kida; An American reporter investigating stories of a vampire in Hungary meets his end when he realizes that the castle he's been poking around in is itself the vampire in disguise. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. "Gone...But Not Forgotten?," art by John Forte; An alien child makes off with Earth city landmarks. "Trapped!" text story. "Yvette," art by Marvin Stein; Two ghosts search for each other on the streets of Paris. "Revenge!," art by Ed Winiarski; A man in a labor camp plots his revenge against a co-prisoner responsible for his being there, but has the ill luck of following him into the gas chamber on the day of his scheduled execution. "The Doll House!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Gene Colan; Now that she's twelve, a girl's parents think she is too old for her dollhouse, so they put it in the attic. "Clinging Vine," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Manny Stallman; An explorer has a theory that ivy is plotting against mankind; They put him in a padded cell, where ivy sneaks in through the bars and strangles him before anyone notices. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. "The Wishing Well!," art by Paul Reinman; A young couple starting out find a well on their property that appears to grant wishes. "The Runner" text story, art by Carl Burgos. "The Plane to Nowhere!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Mort Lawrence; A man has an argument with his wife and then gets on a plane which deposits him into a world of doppelgangers. "The Machine!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Ed Winiarski; Scientists build a calculator that gets bored with them and transports itself to another planet with an advanced civilization that will pose more interesting questions. "Stormy Night!," art by Bob Brown; When a nurse gives an ambulance driver a medal of the patron saint of travelers he is surprised to hear from people at his destination that the bridge he crossed to get there had been washed out hours ago. "The Man From Out There," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Pete Tumlinson. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. "The Man Who Stopped Time!," script by Carl Wessler, art by Dick Ayers; A man buys a watch that stops time, but for every minute he halts, a year passes for him. "The Expert" text story. "It Happened On Mars," art by John Tartaglione; When a space ranger meets a Martian princess, he forgets about the girl who jilted him. "The Masterpiece!," art by John Severin; A painter two hundred years dead does a favor for a struggling artist who ekes out a living copying his works. "The Man Who Changed," art by Jay Scott Pike; A plain woman shows kindness to a down-and-outer on St. Valentine's day and he reveals himself as St. Valentine and rewards her with beauty. "The Train That Wasn't There!," art by Bob Powell; A railroad magnate curses his rival with a ghost train that runs through his property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. "They Wouldn't Believe Him!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A woman three thousand years hence flees into the past to avoid marrying a bore. "The Masterpiece" text story. "The Last Chance," art by Paul Reinman; In order to avoid a costly war, a marriage is suggested between two rival factions, but the man finds the girl homely and is not interested. "The Hole in the Ground!," art by Bob Brown; Aliens from another dimension kidnap people in an apartment building. "Jigsaw!," art by Doug Wildey; A man buys a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces fly out of his hand as he tries to place them. "The Survivor!," art by Dave Berg; A man washes up on a beach populated by tiny people. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Maneely. "Three Frightened People," script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; A soldier's spirit shows up in time to save his family from three escaped convicts. "The Wish" text story, art by John Forte. "The Black Book," art by Manny Stallman; An evil sea captain reads a spell from a book of black magic wishing for a sea calm as a "sea of glass" and winds up inside of a bottle. "Mr. Know-It-All," script by Carl Wessler, art by John Forte; A carnival operator is in cahoots with Moon men. "Into Thin Air!," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Ed Winiarski; Elephants go to another planet when they die. "Someone Is in My Room," art by Bob Brown; A sick person's spirit rests up in his room while his body goes to work. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.