Journey into Mystery #55 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1959

About Journey into Mystery #55

Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Found the Giant in the Sky!

Characters: Prof. Dunn

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Chris Rule ? (see notes)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Possible Rule inks per Nick Caputo, November 2017. Jim Vadebonceour Jr disagrees and has ink credit as unknown.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: I Found the Giant in the Sky!

Characters: Prof. Dunn

Synopsis: A homely professor discovers the cloud kingdom of the giants and finds happiness there with a beautiful princess.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Reprints: Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)

Notes: Only "T-" visible in story, job number surmised from other stories in issue. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: Strange Encounter

Characters: Andre Corday

Synopsis: An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely [as M.] (signed)

Inks: Joe Maneely [as M.] (signed)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: I Was A Prisoner of the... Ape Creatures!

Characters: Dunstan Blake

Synopsis: Blake lands on an alien world, where the telepathic natives look like cavemen. He is afraid of being dissected, but is instead is scanned with rays and sent back to Earth as uninteresting.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 3, 5 with page 4 not numbered).

Title: I Can Live Forever!

Characters: Henry; Marge

Synopsis: A scientist studies redwoods looking for the secret of eternal life. He nearly meets disaster when he tests the formula on himself, and finds that to become immortal he must become immobile.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: John Forte (signed)

Inks: John Forte (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: This story is retold in issue #74 (November 1961) as "Forever is a Long Long Time!" drawn by Don Heck, and in issue #103 (April 1964) as "To Live Forever!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for the version in issue #103. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Title: My Neighbor's Secret!

Characters: Sam; Noah

Synopsis: An eccentric moves into a desert town and begins building a boat. Shortly afterwards, it begins to rain constantly and the man’s neighbour is shocked to discover his name is Noah.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Title: I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!

Synopsis: A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)

Notes: 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	1	1	0	2	2	1	8	6	4	4	6	8	3	4	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	56
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	2	9	6	4	4	6	8	3	4	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	58

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