Journey into Mystery, #44
Published: March 1957
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The Haunted Halls!
Credits
- Pencils: Bill Everett
- Inks: Bill Everett
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
Story Notes
Everett's initials can be found on the woman's lapels. This information from Gary Watson, September 2009. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Menace of the Green Men
Storyline
Light images of aliens from space become the fall guy of a crook in a series of planned robberies.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Al Williamson
- Inks: Ralph Mayo
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
Story Notes
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Mayo inks per Atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Al Williamson.
While the City Sleeps!
Storyline
A midget who poses as a ventriloquist's doll in order to pull off heists has a chemist friend who works on suspended animation pills as a hobby. He takes one that is supposed to last for twenty-four hours to throw the police off his trail, but the panicked chemist shows up at his apartment claiming he accidentally gave him a pill that lasts twenty years.
Credits
- Pencils: Doug Wildey
- Inks: Doug Wildey
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
The Strange Power of Henry Grey
Storyline
A man finds he has the power to project his spirit across distance. He uses this ability to do evil to people as he is a hateful person. When he tries to force his business partner out by dive bombing him at the controls of a model airplane, the wing breaks off and the resulting crash breaks the bones of his real body.
Credits
- Pencils: Ed Winiarski
- Inks: Ed Winiarski
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
Story Notes
Art identification from atlastales.com.
The Taboo
Storyline
When a sailor upstages a native witch doctor, the witch doctor maroons the sailor on a small island surrounded by sharks.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Peter James
- Inks: Peter James
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
Story Notes
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
The Heat's On
Storyline
When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
Characters
- John Tyler
- Mary Tyler
- Bobby Tyler
Credits
- Pencils: Gene Colan
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Gene Colan
- Inks: Don Heck
Story Notes
The story has two illustrations; at least one is by Heck. All future reprints of "The Fan" are titled "The Heat's On"
The Outcast
Storyline
A telepath who works for the police department is shunned by others because of his ability until he saves a trapped boy.
Credits
- Pencils: Dick Giordano (uncertain)
- Inks: Vince Colletta
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)
The Haunted Halls
Storyline
When a man enters a castle, he becomes the resident ghost.
Credits
- Pencils: Frank Bolle
- Inks: Frank Bolle
- Colors: Stan Goldberg (uncertain)