Journey into Mystery, #70

Published: July 1961

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Journey into Mystery #70

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Issue Contents:
The Sandman Cometh!
1 page science fiction
Characters
  • Sandman (alien)
  • Steve Bronson
  • Anne Bronson
Credits
The Sandman Cometh!
Story 1 13 pages science fiction
Storyline

A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.

Characters
  • Sandman (alien) Steve Bronson
  • Anne Bronson
  • Bobby Bronson
Credits
Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).

Bird Talk
Story 2 2 pages fantasy
Storyline

A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

Characters
  • Tony Tipple
  • Skeets Mulligan
  • Toodles Murphy
Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

A Thousand Years
Story 3 5 pages horror-suspense; science fiction
Storyline

A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.

Characters
  • Mr. Jordan
  • The Devil ?
Credits
Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Stone Man
Story 4 5 pages fantasy
Storyline

An old man prays to the statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbors cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven.

Characters
  • Dralla/Drallas (both names are used)
Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The story is credited to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the Mighty World of Marvel #56 reprint. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).