Journey into Mystery #15

In "I Fought the Molten Man-Thing!" from Journey into Mystery #15 (1975), a pilot seeking peace after a devastating crash stumbles upon a volcanic eruption and a monstrous, lava-encrusted being. With only a wind tunnel and quick thinking, he confronts the creature in a desperate bid to stop it from spreading.

In "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??!", Mugsy Bogar, a fugitive with nowhere to turn, takes shelter in a seemingly ordinary barbershop—only to find the quiet routine of a shave and a cut may be the last thing he ever experiences. The story unfolds with quiet dread, as the barber’s calm demeanor hides something far more unsettling beneath the surface.

In "Which Wish, Dish...?", a desperate woman’s wish for beauty and wealth lands her in a gilded trap—literally ascending the stairs to a throne she never asked for. But as the crowd watches, she realizes too late: she didn’t wish to be Marie Antoinette.

In "The Hungry Jaws," a desperate plantation owner faces a relentless tide of swarming ants, using his workers as a grim sacrifice to buy time with a burning moat—only to find the dead bodies become a bridge the ants use to overrun him. The story unfolds with chilling precision, blending dread and grim pragmatism in a tale where survival comes at a terrible cost.