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| Title: | Journey Into Mystery |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Type: | Ongoing series |
| Years published: | 1952-1966 (Original) 1996-1998 (1st revival) 2011-present (2nd revival) |
| Total issues: | 125 (Original run) 20 (1st revival) 30+ (2nd revival) |
| Featuring: | Thor Odinson |
| Creators: | Stan Lee; Larry Lieber; Jack Kirby |
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Journey Into Mystery, Volume 1 is an American ongoing comic book series that began life as an anthology title and eventually became a superhero fantasy series. It has to date, gone through three revivals. The series was originally published by Marvel Comics an ran from June 1952 to February 1966 spanning a total of 125 issues and 1 Annual. The series is notable for introducing the superhero character Thor who, along with his supporting cast, debuted in Journey Into Mystery #83 in 1962. Thor became the cover feature for the series and following Journey Into Mystery #125, took over the book entirely when the title changed to Thor, Volume 1.
A second Journey Into Mystery was published by Marvel in 1972 and ran for nineteen issues until 1975. This series had nothing to do with the superhero setting of the Marvel Universe and was a throwback to the original title's suspense and horror stories of the 1950s.
Journey Into Mystery resumed it's original numbering with issue #503 in 1996, picking up after the recently cancelled Thor title and combined the issue counts of both book. The series continued until 1998 with issue #521 and was cancelled once again.
In 2011, Thor, Volume 3 reverted back to it's original numbering system from the first title, combining the issue counts from Journey Into Mystery, Thor, Volume 1, Thor, Volume 2 and the 1990s revival of Journey Into Mystery. This went until issue #621 whereupon the title changed back once again to Journey Into Mystery with issue #622.
The first Journey into Mystery series was initially a horror-fantasy anthology published by Marvel Comics' 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics, with a first issue cover-dated June 1952. Artist Joe Kubert, who would later become one of the main war comics artists for DC Comics drew the story "The Hog" in Journey into Mystery #21 (January 1955). [1]
Issue #23 was the first to be approved by the Comics Code Authority, which led to restrictions on horror comics. The title was caught in the collapse of Atlas' distributor, and publication was suspended for a year between issues #48 (Aug. 1957) and #49 (Nov. 1958). [2]
Xemnu the Living Hulk, a huge, furry alien monster first appeared in Journey Into Mystery #62 (November 1960). The character reappeared in issue #66 (March 1961). Since then the character has been a mainstay in the Marvel Universe, and was renamed Xemnu the Titan. Journey into Mystery #69 and the teen-humor title Patsy Walker #95 (both June 1961) are the first modern comic books labeled "Marvel Comics", with each showing an "MC" box on its cover. [3]
Issues
1-50[]
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51-100[]
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101-125[]
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503-521[]
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622-650[]
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Annuals & Specials
- Journey Into Mystery Annual 1
- Fear Itself: Journey Into Mystery 1
Collections
- Essential Thor 1
- Marvel Masterworks: Journey Into Mystery 1
- Marvel Masterworks: Journey Into Mystery 2
- Marvel Masterworks: Journey Into Mystery 3
- Marvel Masterworks: Journey Into Mystery 4
Notes & Trivia
- Journey Into Mystery #116 was reprinted in 2005 and included with the Loki Marvel Legends action figure.
Recommended Reading
See also
External Links
- Journey Into Mystery, Volume 1 at MDP
- Journey Into Mystery, Volume 1 at Comics.org
- Journey Into Mystery, Volume 1 at Comic Vine
- Journey Into Mystery, Volume 1 at Comicbookdb.com