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Journey into Mystery #63

Marvel · Series began 1952 · December 1960

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Dates

Cover date: December 1960
On sale: August 29, 1960
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Gene Colan, Steve Ditkoinks: Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Gene Colancolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Sam Rosen

Stories

Goliath! The Monster That.. ...Walked Like a Man! · 7 pages
An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth.
The Heat's On · 2 pages
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.
I Was Trapped by the Mole Men! · 6 pages
A snobbish mine owner is captured by subterranean creatures and kept in a zoo until the mine foreman rescues him. The experience teaches him to treat his employees with respect.
The Dangerous Doll · 5 pages
A poor man finds a doll in the field and gives it to his lame daughter. What he doesn't know is that the doll actually moves and talks. When he's gone the doll asks the girl for food as the "doll" is really an alien child that's gone off exploring other planets without his parents' supervision. When his parents do arrive, he asks the father to reward the girl for her kindness and he cures her leg and leaves behind a gold bar.
I Took a Journey into Fear! · 5 pages
A man wants to build a time machine, but his colleagues say it is impossible. He works in secret and murders one of them to get the equipment that he needs, but when he activates the machine, he goes mad and thinks that he has succeeded.

Publisher’s description

An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning home.

Reprinted in

Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Spellbound (1960), Sinister Tales (1964), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Fear (1970), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), Crazy Magazine (1973), Doctor Who Weekly (1979), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)