Journey into Mystery #78
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn Journey into Mystery #78 (1962), Stan Lee and Larry Lieber team up with Jack Kirby on art and Steve Ditko on inks for a wild, early Marvel sci-fi tale: an alien fugitive named Kraggoom plots to possess Earth’s first astronaut, only to find himself stranded in the mind of a fraud who never should’ve made the trip. With Kirby’s dynamic cover and Stan Goldberg’s vibrant coloring, this 12-cent classic delivers a twisty, suspenseful ride where the real danger isn’t from space—but from the man who stole his way there.
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An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
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