Journey into Mystery #53
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Only Twelve of Us May Live!", a rogue planet hurtles toward Canopus Minor, forcing a desperate choice: only twelve can escape. Sfeen devises a radical solution—shrinking the entire population to miniature size to fit aboard the limited craft. With art by Joe Sinnott and coloring by Stan Goldberg, this 1959 tale blends cosmic dread with inventive sci-fi, all framed by Jack Kirby’s dynamic cover and Christopher Rule’s inks.
In the quiet desperation of Canopus Minor, a rogue planet looms, threatening to erase all life—leaving only twelve souls to survive. When Sfeen devises a daring solution, shrinking the entire population to miniature size, the fate of an entire world rests on a single, impossible experiment.
In "Beware of Tomorrow!" from Journey into Mystery #53 (1959), a mysterious stranger arrives in town, eerily accurate in warning of upcoming disasters. When Mike questions how he knows what’s to come, the man simply says he’s from the future—leaving the town, and readers, wondering just how far ahead the truth can reach.
In "Shadows in the Night!" from Journey into Mystery #53 (1959), Elias, haunted by the conviction that a hidden world exists just beyond sight, wrestles with the weight of a truth he can’t prove—until he begins to wonder if the real mystery isn’t finding Earth, but what lies beyond the veil.
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Reprinted in Strange Tales Annual #1 (1962), Creepy Worlds #21 (1963), Creepy Worlds #153 (1975), Vault of Evil #20 (1975), Creepy Worlds #187 (1979), The Empire Strikes Back Weekly #123 (1980), Secrets of the Unknown #241 (1987), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby #1 (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus #1 (2019), Adventures into the Unknown #17, Astounding Stories #57, Creepy Worlds #75, Secrets of the Unknown #75
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