Journey into Mystery #4

(December 1952)

The Bewitched Bike! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Tony DiPreta (signed as Tony DiPreta)

Inks

Tony DiPreta (signed as Tony DiPreta)

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

B-310

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A crook steals a bike from a time-traveler that has come from the year 1992, forty years in the future. He robs a bank and pedals into the future but is recognized anyway and shot as he attempts to flee. His body is deposited in 1952 minus the bike and the police wonder which one of them got him because the wound on the dead man's forehead does not appear to have been made by a .38.

Reprints

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)

Death Waits Within! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Carl Hubbell

Inks

Carl Hubbell

Colors

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Letters

?

Job Number

B-218

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

An elderly couple that run an inn in Europe murder their guests in order to rob them and send the money to their son in America. They do not recognize their final victim as their son and he does not tell them because he wanted to surprise them with his visit.

Reprints

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)

The Locked Door! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ed Winiarski (signed as Ed Win)

Inks

Ed Winiarski (signed as Ed Win)

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

B-283

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)

Out of the Jungle (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Job Number

A-1001

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Anthony Jones; Johnny

Synopsis

A man runs into the descendant of gorillas that immigrated from the jungle to America.

Reprints

• in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (March 1955) [as "How Many Others"]
• in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960)
which is reprinted
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #69 ([no date])
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #18 ([undated])

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

I'm Drowning! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

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Letters

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Editing

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Job Number

B-208

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Pete Norris; Joe

Synopsis

Pete Norris is a con who is about to get the chair for the murders he committed. When he hears that the prison may flood he decides to try to escape. He makes it into a room where he is trapped with water leaking in. He decides it is better to try to stop the leak but when he sticks his finger in the hole he is electrocuted because the hole was an electric socket.

Reprints

• in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #25 (September 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)

Indexer Notes

Art credits per atlastales.com.

Hiding Place (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Romita (signed as John Romita)

Inks

John Romita (signed as John Romita)

Colors

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Letters

?

Job Number

B-313

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)