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Journey into Mystery #73
October 1961 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1961-08-01
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Synopsis
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.
Credits
- Script
- Larry Lieber
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
- Inks
- George Klein, Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editor
- Stan Lee
Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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