Best Place to Sell Journey into Mystery #71

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Journey into Mystery #71

Roc appearance. Steve Ditko cover. Ditko and Jack Kirby art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Brought the Roc to Life!

Characters: Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Cover signed "Ditko" on the Jeep.

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (April 1971)

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: I Brought the Roc to Life!

Characters: Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery

Synopsis: Two newlyweds in Egypt uncover a huge egg in the sand that hatches into the Roc in the warm sunlight. The monstrous bird flies around gathering parts of bridges, trains and other items to use in constructing a nest until the scientist that uncovered the egg gets the idea to build a robotic duplicate that flies into outer space, enticing the Roc to follow it in its forlorn quest for a mate.

Pages: 13.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek; Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (April 1971)

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"The Roc Lives Again!" (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).

Title: Zero of Time

Characters: John Pearson; Prof. Thomas Benton; Father Time

Synopsis: A scientist's machine transports him and a reporter outside of time and into the realm of Father Time.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

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

Title: The Boy Who Vanished!

Characters: Billy Carter; Alana

Synopsis: A lame boy wills himself to the future and his legs are healed before he sends himself home.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

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

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: The Painting

Characters: Simon Squeed

Synopsis: An art dealer who buys quality paintings at rock-bottom insulting prices from poverty stricken artists and then sells them for thousands attempts to steal a beautiful painting from a gypsy who refuses to sell it. The dealer has the gypsy arrested on a trumped up charge and burgles the man's wagon to remove the painting. When the gypsy is released because the man cannot be found he knows why and goes to the art dealer's apartment to retrieve his enchanted painting, finding the art dealer now a part of the picture.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (May 1974), | Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)

Notes: The name Bessarabia was obsolete even when this story was printed, it was then part of the Soviet Union, and is today known as Moldova. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and Letters credit from The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Creators website. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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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
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Restored	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
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