Journey into Mystery #34

(May 1956)

The Secret of the Mystic Ring (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale ?; Jay Scott Pike ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-73

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #7
• in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #71 (Noviembre 30 de 1957)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #S ([circa Summer 1977])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Jay Scott Pike Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #4. Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics, Vol 25, No. 6, June 2014.

The Long Way Home (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bob Forgione

Inks

Bob Forgione ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-78

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #71 (Noviembre 30 de 1957)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #10 (1963 ?)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #32 (1968 ?) [Black and white.]
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #138 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #211 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Pencils and job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Previous credits for art: Sal Trapani?
Previous credit for inks: Jack Abel?

Odd Skills (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-216

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Jim Branner; Bill Toney

Synopsis

The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.

Reprints

• in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #56 (February 1957) [as "No Variations"]
which is reprinted
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #1 (1960)
• in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #7 ([circa 1961])
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #8 (1963 ?)
• in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #7 (January 1960)
which is reprinted
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #136 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
• in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (June 1961)
which is reprinted
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #56
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
• in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #49 (November 1963)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #204 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

A Penny for Your Dreams! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Winiarski

Inks

Bernie Krigstein ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-13

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #10 (1963 ?), #64 ([circa 1968]), #138 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #211 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

The Missing Man! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marvin Stein ?

Inks

Gray Morrow ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

H-963

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #10 (1963 ?)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Previous pencil credits to Al Williamson from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #4. Other indexers had suggested Herb Familton art.

Down to Earth (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-45

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #74
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #10 (1963 ?), #138 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #211 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Someone Is Calling (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)

Inks

Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-27

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #74
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #10 (1963 ?), #138 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #211 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #4 ([May] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #4.