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Journey into Mystery #73 (1961) · The Collector

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Journey into Mystery (1952)
#73

Marvel#73

Journey into Mystery

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Journey into Mystery #73

Where Will You Be, When...The Spider Strikes! / What Lurks on Channel X? / Menace from Mars! / One Look Means Doom!

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: October 1961
On sale: Aug 1, 1961
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Grand Comics Database issue 16504

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A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. The creature is bombarded by the atomic rays and grows to a huge size, gaining the power to think and speak, and then attacks the humans. The physicist tricks the spider into snagging a test missile in its web and when it climbs towards it, the missile detonates and kills the spider.

Writers: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
Pencillers: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
Inkers: Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Covers: Jack Kirby, George Klein
Cover colors: Stan Goldberg
Editor: Stan Lee
Cover letters: Artie Simek

Characters

Bill Jones
Charles Grey
Jordan
Medusa the Gorgon
Mr. Cragley
Prof. Robert Carter
Ruth Jones
Sarah Grey

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