Journey into Mystery #57 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Journey into Mystery #57

Jack Kirby cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Orogo! The Thing from Beyond!

Characters: Orogo

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Ayers inks per Nick Caputo, November 2018. Orogo looks nothing like the character in the interior story.

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971), | Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #2 (April 1966)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!!

Characters: Orogo; Albert Carstairs

Synopsis: An alien robot arrives to hypnotically enslave the people of Earth, but is stopped when it cannot hypnotize one old man, a blind man.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck; Jack Kirby (splash)

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek (splash); Ray Holloway (pages 2-6)

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971), | Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #2 (April 1966)

Notes: Jack Kirby pencilled the splash page. Info per Nick Caputo, March 2013. Narrated in the third person. 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: The Earth-Crawlers!

Characters: Henry Salt; Martha Salt

Synopsis: An inventor with a nagging wife must prevent giant roots resulting from a witch doctor's curse from overrunning Africa. He then turns to inventing a device which will harness the power of his wife's voice.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)

Notes: Narrated in the third person. 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 5).

Title: Tricky Travel

Characters: Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy

Synopsis: A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 16, 24 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: The Metal Monster

Characters: Mr. Mason; Grosko

Synopsis: An American engineer ignores the warnings of locals and builds a road through a Gypsy-inhabited wood. One of the gypsies causes his steam shovel to attack him until he agrees to stop building.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)

Notes: Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 17-18, 20-23 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: The Martian Who Stole My Body!

Characters: John Warren; Spot; Zetora (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: A Martian criminal arrives on earth and switches bodies with a man, but the man's dog can still tell the difference between them, forcing the Martian to switch back.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (May 1972)

Notes: Zetora next appears in issue #58. Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 26, 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6). The last page of story includes an advertisement for the next issue as a promo tag "Note: Don't Miss The Next Great Issue When "THE MARTIAN RETURNS!!"".

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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	3	2	5	2	4	2	6	5	4	9	3	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
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	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	2	6	2	4	2	7	5	4	10	4	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	58

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