Journey into Mystery, #78
Published: March 1962
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The Sorcerer!
Characters
- Lucy Scott
- Aaron
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Inking credit added by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008.
Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!
Storyline
An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
Characters
- Kraggoom
- Derek Wolfington
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Ray Holloway (uncertain)
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Time Machine
Storyline
A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
Credits
- Pencils: Reed Crandall
- Inks: Reed Crandall
Story Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Sorcerer
Storyline
A stranger appears at a gas station and asks for a job. He has mysterious powers, and is eventually attacked by supernatural beings. They agree to leave him alone, but only if he gives up his powers.
Characters
- Lucy Scott
- Aaron
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Clutching Hand
Storyline
The producers of an oddities exhibit strike it rich when a suspended hand appears in their booth. The more honest one discovers that the hand is part of a stranded extra-dimensional being and frees it, enraging his crooked partner, who takes the profits and leaves, leaving his partner to collect a reward in gold from the being.
Characters
- Charlie
- Mike
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Joe Sinnott
- Inks: Joe Sinnott
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: John Duffy
Story Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). The last page includes an advertisements for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
Monsters on Mercury!
Storyline
On Christmas eve, the first group of astronauts to land on Mercury encounter a group of friendly telepathic aliens who make them a Christmas tree.
Characters
- Ben
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
This book was published around Christmas 1961 coinciding with the science fiction Christmas theme. (Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005). The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.