Journey Into Mystery #15

(April 1954)

Satan Can Wait (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

D-908

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

When a man enters a bar and, as a gag, offers a skeptic a contract for his soul for one million dollars the skeptic signs it. No one sees the stranger leave, but a coincidence leaves the signer one million dollars from a will. As time goes by, the contract worries away at him distorting his personality from likable to hostile. His employees hate him and his family leave him. One day he receives a visitor and it turns out to be the man with the contract looking for work. The skeptic is so angered that his life has been changed so dramatically by a practical joke that he seizes a heavy candlestick and kills the stranger. Now he feels that he has sold his soul to the Devil in actuality and walks out into the dark for Satan to claim him.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

Killer In the House (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

A-100

Content Information

Reprinted:

• from Amazing Detective Stories (Marvel, 1950 series) #13 (July 1952) [originally titled "The Strange Fingerprints"]

Till Death Do Us Part (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Inks:

Vic Carrabotta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

D-711

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A man finally works up the nerve to strangle his cheating wife but an atomic war breaks out, and the two of them find their bodies fused together by atomic radiation.

Reprinted:

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (August 1973)
• in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

The Face That Followed (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul S. Newman

Pencils:

Al Luster (signed)

Inks:

Al Luster

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

D-780

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

An escaped convict vows to haunt a hermit who has murdered him after ascertaining where his stolen loot was buried. When the police arrive at the hermit's hut they gun him down because, unknown to him, his face is now that of the man he killed.

Reprinted:

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (August 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

Indexer Notes

script credit from the Masterworks reprint

Bewitched (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mannie Banks (signed)

Inks:

Mannie Banks

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

D-779

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

In 1686 a man asks a woman to marry him and is turned down so he plants evidence to get her condemned as a witch. They pursue her through the forest and the man hurts his leg so they leave him behind to pursue her. She returns to the man to get revenge and says "So you called me a witch? Well, you were close!" as she bares her vampire fangs.

Reprinted:

• in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (October 1973) [re-titled "Witch Hunt"]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

The Man Who Was Nobody (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul S. Newman

Pencils:

Ed Winiarski

Inks:

Ed Winiarski

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

D-879

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A Martian sleeper agent is eradicated when his usefulness is ended due to incarceration in an asylum. He was committed because he had tried to obtain a passport and could provide no official documentation that he existed.

Reprinted:

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

Indexer Notes

credits from the Masterworks reprint