Journey into Mystery
#72
[British]
(September 1961)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 9d [0-0-9 GBP]
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Printer
- Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price, cover month removed and Thorpe & Porter distribution appended to indicia.
This issue is a variant of Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #72.
This issue is a variant of Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #72.
The Glob!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Glob
- Reprints
-
in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971) [partially redrawn and relettered] -
in Roy Thomas Presents The Heap (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (November 2012) - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Possible Ayers inks per Nick Caputo, June 2015.
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The Glob
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-304
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Glob
- Synopsis
- A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.
- Reprints
- in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #8 ([circa 1961])
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #33 (1963)
-
in Hit Comics Captain Marvel (BSV - Williams, 1970 series) #204 - in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971) [retitled and minus 1 page] which is reprinted
-
in Edderkoppen (Williams, 1973 series) #2/1973 (1973) -
in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #8 ([March 1974] ?) - in Monster Masterworks (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #10 (Janvier 1972), #11 (Février 1972) - in Hit Comics Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #249
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #34 (octobre 1973) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Klein inks per Nick Caputo, September 2014. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part 2—"The Glob!" (7 pp).
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).
The Sorcerer
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- H-203
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
- Synopsis
- A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #16 (1964 ?), #62 (1968 ?)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #130 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
-
Indexer Notes
Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Patient in Room 3D
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-305
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #84 which is reprinted
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #192 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #21 (1964 ?)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #118
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #4 ([Septembre 1970])
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971)
-
in De Vier Verdedigers Classics (Classics/Williams, 1971 series) #79 (1974) - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #154 ([circa 1976 - 1977]) [black and white]
- in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #2 (janvier 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Will This Be the End of the World?
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-306
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #21 (1964 ?)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #84 (1967)
-
in Marvelserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #33 (1969) - in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #116
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #154 ([circa 1976 - 1977]) [black and white] which is reprinted
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #192 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Lee script per an examination at Nick Caputo's Blog:
http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Glob!
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1.
The Glob
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2.
The Sorcerer
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3.
The Patient in Room 3D
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4.
Will This Be the End of the World?
This issue was modified by
- David Bruce
- Steve Coates
- robert hart
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