Journey into Mystery, #72
Published: September 1961
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Issue Contents:
The Glob!
Characters
- Glob
Credits
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers (uncertain)
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Possible Ayers inks per Nick Caputo, June 2015.
The Glob
Storyline
A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.
Characters
- Glob
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: George Klein
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Klein inks per Nick Caputo, September 2014. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers. Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part 2—"The Glob!" (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).
The Sorcerer
Storyline
A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Characters
- Tom Morton
- Jack Morton
- Ellen Morton
- Johnny Morton
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Maneely
- Inks: Joe Maneely
Story Notes
Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Patient in Room 3D
Storyline
Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence.
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Paul Reinman
- Inks: Paul Reinman
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Narrated in the second 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).
Will This Be the End of the World?
Storyline
A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them.
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Possible Lee script per an examination at Nick Caputo's Blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).