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CATALOG RECORD

Journey into Mystery #65

Marvel · Series began 1952 · February 1961

Dates

Cover date
February 1961
On sale
October 27, 1960
Pages
36

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Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heckinks: Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers, Don Heckcolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • I Am the Brute That Walks! · 13 pages

    A man invents a growth serum to deal with his insecurities, but it turns him into a monster. He is driven mad by the serum and terrifies the city until it wears off. He gets the credit for destroying the monster and destroys his notes to prevent a repeat.

  • The Inventor · 2 pages

    A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.

  • Fear in the Night · 5 pages

    A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot, but they are both saved, and we find that the man was a humanoid robot, and the robot a robot-looking alien.

  • Kragoo! · 5 pages

    An alien soldier is given immense strength and the ability to possess the body of one victim in order to hypnotize the population of their target planet. One is sent to Earth, but mistakenly possesses a statue and is trapped.

Reprinted in

Where Creatures Roam (1970), Spellbound (1960), Super Giant (1973), Zombie (1961), Voodoo (1961), Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Monster Masterworks (1989), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)

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