Journey into Mystery, #77
Published: February 1962
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Issue Contents:
I Don't Believe in Ghosts!
Characters
- Mr. Jordan
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Beware! He Isn't Human!
Storyline
A Hollywood special effects man builds an android to slay a woman who rejected his advances because she was "waiting". After he sends the robot to the museum where she works, he relaxes for a sufficient time, and then is startled when she appears at the door with the robot. She reveals that she too, is a robot, and she was "waiting" for a robot to be a mate. The two machines slowly approach him as he backs towards an open window which he falls through.
Characters
- Eric Krugg
- Diane Harper
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: George Klein
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Klein inks on splash page per Nick Caputo, February 2018.
The Radio
Storyline
A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
Characters
- Bill Barton
- Mr. Sparks
Story Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
I Don't Believe in...Ghosts!
Storyline
A man offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can show him a ghost but, time after time, he proves that there is a rational explanation behind the sightings. It turns out he does this because he is a ghost himself, and wants to prevent haunted houses from being demolished, rendering their occupants homeless.
Characters
- Mr. Jordan
- Wilbur Weems
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: John Duffy
Story Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Ayers inks per Nick Caputo, February 2018. Bob Bailey previously credited George Klein. The last page includes an advertisement for the debut of The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
When Aliens Walk the Earth!
Storyline
Earth is terrified by the appearance of a flying saucer, but the people are relieved to see the aliens are small and elf-like. They explain that they are peaceful and open contact, changing after they leave into their true insectoid forms, which would have frightened the humans into attacking them.
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Don Heck
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: John Duffy
Story Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.).
They Were Only Scarecrows!
Storyline
A man tries to get his uncle, who talks to scarecrows, committed to an asylum so that he can take over his farm. When he takes the sheriff out to speak with his uncle the sheriff returns visibly shaken and tells the nephew to butt out of the farmer's business. The farmer has revealed to the sheriff that the reason he talks to the scarecrows as his friends is that he himself is one.
Characters
- Ben Hobbs
- Reuben
- Clem
- Simon Hobbs
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.