Journey into Mystery #56 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Journey into Mystery #56

Jack Kirby cover. Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Don Heck art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Brought Zog the Unbelievable Back to Life!

Characters: Zog

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Cover inks suggestion by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List (December 2008). Zog miscolored in brown on cover (instead white in the story within).

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: I Brought Zog Back to Life!

Characters: Charles Burton; Zog

Synopsis: An alien giant is found in a glacier, causing fear of what might happen if it gets free. A scientist thinks that the fear is dangerous and frees it, finding that the alien is harmless.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-8 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: I Spent a Night in the Haunted Lighthouse!

Characters: John

Synopsis: A man visiting a coastal town is stranded in an abandoned lighthouse during a storm and sees a ghostly ship and pirates arrive. Next morning he finds a life preserver from the Flying Dutchman.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)

Notes: Information on this sequence from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14, 16 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: I Planted the Seeds of Doom!

Characters: Hank Garnett

Synopsis: A space explorer sells the seeds of an alien plant, before finding to his horror that the plants spawn monsters. He uses the monster’s need for water to escape and stop the growth of more like it.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Jack Kirby ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 17-18, 20-23 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: Underground

Characters: Doyle Fairless; Sandy Clark

Synopsis: A man is thought mad for designing underground homes, until everyone moves underground and surface-dwellers are thought mad.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 24, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: I Shrunk Away to Nothing!

Characters: Brad; Prof. Ace

Synopsis: A man needs to raise money for his brother's medical treatment and so he answers an ad from a scientist seeking to test a shrinking ray. He agrees to be the subject and the ray works. He finds himself shrinking past microscopic objects and finally finds himself in a new world. When he asks a native what this world is called, he receives the answer 'Earth'.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)

Notes: This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961) as "The World Beyond" (also drawn by Ditko). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	3	4	7	3	4	5	4	4	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	48
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	4	4	7	3	4	5	5	4	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	50

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