Journey into Mystery #5

Marvel Comics

United States

Published
February 1953
Page count
36
Cover price
0.10 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/10309

Credits

Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Fright Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense

Credits

Art
Bill Everett
Colours
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?
typeset

Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Show/hide 1. Fright Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Code
B-434

Credits

Script
Stan Lee
Art
Russ Heath
Colours
?
Letters
?

Reprint history

Also printed
United States
Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 ([May] 1973)
Zombie!
 
United States
Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 ([May] 1973)
Fright!
 
Australia
Dracula Lives! (Yaffa/Page, 1978? series) #1 (December 1978)
Zombie!
 
Australia
Dracula Lives! (Yaffa/Page, 1978? series) #1 (December 1978)
Fright!

Synopsis

A cruel asylum keeper is drugged by his assistant as he and the asylum keeper's wife wish to marry. The drug stupefies the man so the judge grants the divorce on grounds of madness and places him into the asylum where the inmates are glad to welcome him after being on the receiving end of so many beatings.

Show/hide 2. The Big Shoes Text story, 2 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Code
B-450

Credits

Author
?
Art
?
Colours
?
Letters
typeset
Show/hide 3. Zombie! Comic story, 6 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Code
B-397

Credits

Script
?
Art
Tony DiPreta
Colours
?
Letters
?

Synopsis

In a Haitian village, a criminal named Blackie becomes afraid for his life when a man named Larson he framed for a crime has learned how to raise the dead and control the reanimated corpses as zombies. After learning how to raise the dead he tricks Larson into meeting him in the grave yard and tries to raise a zombie to kill Larson. But to Blackie's horror, he has risen the zombie that Larson previously raised himself. Instead of following Blackie's orders, the zombie turns on his would be master, with Larson watching in glee at his enemies fate.

Show/hide 4. Condemned! Comic story, 5 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Code
B-489

Credits

Script
Carl Wessler
Art
C. L. Hartman (signed)
Colours
?
Letters
?

Notes

Pencils and inks credit from Chris Brown (December 21, 2005). Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.

Show/hide 5. Innocent Bystander Comic story, 5 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Code
B-349

Credits

Script
?
Pencils
Dick Briefer
Inks
?
Colours
?
Letters
?

Reprint history

Also printed
United States
Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (March 1973)
Innocent Bystander
 
Australia
Crypt of Shadows (Yaffa/Page, 1977? series) #1 (1975)
Innocent Bystander
 
Australia
Where Monsters Dwell (Yaffa/Page, 1980?) ([1980?])
Innocent Bystander

Synopsis

A woman buys an antique statue that murders her in her sleep.


Notes

some job numbers from atlastales.com

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 90083

Entry created

  • 13/08/2021

Cover added

  • 13/08/2021

Index completed

  • 13/08/2021

Last updated

  • 08/08/2014