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Journey into Mystery#74
Cover: Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers
Journey into Mystery #74
“The Thing in the Black Box!”
writer Stan Lee · writer Larry Lieber · artist Jack Kirby · inker Dick Ayers · inker Marvin Stein · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Ray Holloway · cover Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
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Full credits
writer Stan Lee
writer Larry Lieber
artist Jack Kirby
inker Dick Ayers
inker Marvin Stein
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Ray Holloway
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Dick Ayers
Full plot ⚠ may contain spoilers
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An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound. When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. He flees and summons the police, who attack the aliens with tear gas. The entire wax museum begins to shudder and the whole building lifts off into space. They leave behind a book which states that their intent was to pass along beneficial knowledge, but the humans are too dangerous and perhaps they will return in a thousand years.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).