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Journey into Mystery #78
March 1962 · 0.12 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1962-01-02
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Synopsis
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.
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek, Ray Holloway, John Duffy
- Editor
- Stan Lee
- Illustration
- Reed Crandall
- Splash
- Artie Simek
Notes
Distributed to newsstands December 21, 1961, according to Bob Bailey. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
The copyright date for this issue listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 16, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, Jan.-June 1962 is incorrectly recorded as "2 Feb". Based on the copyright dates for the surrounding issues, the correct date is likely in the very beginning of January.
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