Journey into Mystery, #42

Published: January 1957

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Journey into Mystery #42

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Issue Contents:
Farley's Other Face
1 page crime
Credits
Story Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Farley's Other Face!
Story 1 4 pages crime
Storyline

A man steals a thousand dollars from a recluse that he had pretended to befriend, then pays to have his looks altered and fingerprints removed to avoid trouble with the police. It turns out that the wealthy recluse died shortly after the theft and left the thief his money, but he has no way to convince authorities that he was that man.

Credits
Story Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

Life Sentence!
Story 2 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A man gives a prisoner time-traveling pills in exchange for the knowledge of where the bank roll is hidden because he knows the past can't be changed. The prisoner thinks he will be able to go back in time and behave differently, so he agrees to the deal, but finds that he does the exact same things and will have to serve his sentence all over again.

Credits
Story Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

The Curse of Ojiir!
Story 3 3 pages fantasy
Storyline

When two jewel thieves attempt to steal a cursed diamond they find themselves aged prematurely.

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He Saw the Future
Story 4 2 pages fantasy
Humans... Keep Out!
Story 5 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

Scientists are driven off the moon by lifeforms that they themselves engineered to live without oxygen so as to colonize the moon.

The Savages
Story 6 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble.

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The Disappearing Man!
Story 7 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A fight manager has his wife stolen from him when he signs up a Venusian who can disappear in the ring at will.

Credits
Story Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.