Journey into Mystery #65 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Journey into Mystery #65

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

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Brute That Walks!

Characters: "The Brute That Walks" [Howard Avery]

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970)

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: I Am the Brute That Walks!

Characters: Howard Avery; Sally Barton

Synopsis: A man invents a growth serum to deal with his insecurities, but it turns him into a monster. He is driven mad by the serum and terrifies the city until it wears off. He gets the credit for destroying the monster and destroys his notes to prevent a repeat.

Pages: 13.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970)

Notes: Narrated in the first person. The story is divided into two parts: Part 1: I Am the Brute That Walks 1 (6 pp) and Part 2: The Brute That Walks! (7 pp) without separate titles. The Brute next appears in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005) This story is said to take place in Chicago. 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).

Title: The Inventor

Characters: Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas

Synopsis: A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: Fear in the Night

Characters: Zenocian #7; Model Vog robot

Synopsis: A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot, but they are both saved, and we find that the man was a humanoid robot, and the robot a robot-looking alien.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970)

Notes: 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).

Title: Kragoo!

Characters: Kragoo

Synopsis: An alien soldier is given immense strength and the ability to possess the body of one victim in order to hypnotize the population of their target planet. One is sent to Earth, but mistakenly possesses a statue and is trapped.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970)

Notes: Narrated in the second person. This story is a retelling of "Trapped on Earth!" from issue #52 (May 1959). In this story the human-looking aliens are exposed to gamma radiation to transform them into large deformed warriors, and was published more than a year before the introduction of the Hulk. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 4 and last page not numbered).

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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	1	2	1	1	4	4	2	5	9	12	8	9	7	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	74
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	4	4	2	5	9	12	8	9	8	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	76

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