Journey Into Mystery #75 (Marvel, 1961) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages....

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Journey into Mystery #75 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Journey into Mystery #75

The last 10¢ issue of the title. Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art. Steve Ditko and Paul Reinman art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Lo-Karr Bringer of Doom!; Mr. Gregory and the Ghost!

Characters: Lo-Karr; Lucius P. Gregory

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Cover inker credit from Bob Bailey (2 September 2005). Confirmed by Nick Caputo (June 30, 2006).

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

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Lo-Karr, Bringer of Doom!

Characters: Lo-Karr

Synopsis: As international tensions mount, an alien lands and demonstrates its power before leaving, promising to return with an army. The world powers set aside their differences to prepare to defend themselves, but the alien was a robot created by a scientist hoping to inspire this reaction.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: John Duffy; Artie Simek (splash)

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

Notes: The last page includes a promo tag "You've never read a comic like "THE FANTASTIC FOUR"! Get your spine-tingling copy today!" for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) by Lee and Kirby. The same promo tag appears in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #9, Gunsmoke Western (Marvel, 1955 series) #68-70, Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75-80, 82, Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #102-104, Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1960 series) #26-28, Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92-99, Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24-29, 31-32 and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #26-33. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Story is pages 3-8 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Title: Mr. Gregory and the Ghost!

Characters: Lucius P. Gregory

Synopsis: A homebuilder who uses shoddy materials and unskilled labor gets his comeuppance when he builds a home for himself out of the wood from haunted trees. He tries and fails several times to drive the ghost out of the house, but stubbornly refuses to admit failure. He bankrupts himself when he tries to move the entire house away from the ghost not realizing that the house itself is the ghost.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: George Klein

Letters: John Duffy

Reprints: Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (October 1966), | Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)

Notes: Klein inks per Nick Caputo, March 2013. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Story is pages 10-14, 16-17 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 7).

Title: Venus!

Characters: Monangahela Munroe

Synopsis: The first explorer on Venus is caught in an old bear trap, but he is able to use the wildlife to call for help.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: ? (illustration)

Inks: ? (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Reprints: Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #104 (January 1963), | Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #32 (June 1962)

Notes: Text story with illustration. All future reprints of "The Hills of Venus" used this title. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Text story is pages 18, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: The Magic of Mordoo!

Characters: Franz Kopnik; Katrina Steuben; Mordoo

Synopsis: A man falls in love with a middle-aged woman on vacation, but wants a younger wife. He convinces her to let a gypsy magician make her young again, but once she's young and pretty she leaves him for the young attractive gypsy.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed); Sol Brodsky ? (see notes)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed); Sol Brodsky ? (see notes)

Letters: Joe Letterese

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #9 (May 1971)

Notes: Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) The last four panels on page 5 were likely redrawn by Sol Brodsky. Info per Nick Caputo. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: The Man Who Lost the World!

Characters: Bruno

Synopsis: A scientist's assistant is determined to find if his time machine that sends objects into the past or future. He steals some gold ingots from the office and steps into the ray, knowing that he can never return to the present. When his journey ends, Earth is so primitive that he is cut off from all humanity, and he realizes that he still doesn't know whether the machine sends things into the past or future since it could be either the dawn or the end of time.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #9 (May 1971)

Notes: The last page includes a promo tag "Like this type of story? Then don't miss "AMAZING ADULT FANTASY" comics -- On sale NOW!" for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. The same promo tag appears in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75-82, Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92-99, Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24-32 and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #26-33. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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