Journey into Mystery #81

In "There Dwells a Dragon," young Tommy’s fascination with knights and dragons takes a startling turn when his father vanishes into a mist at the zoo—only to return from Camelot with a dragon’s blood on his sword. The moment he steps back into the present, he sees his own face staring back from the pages of Tommy’s book, a chilling echo of a tale that may have already come true.

In "Kunga," two hunters track rumors of a monstrous ape through the jungle, only to face a creature far beyond their understanding—alien in origin and intelligence. The story quietly challenges the idea that strength always wins, leaving the hunters (and readers) with a deeper question about what truly separates the wild from the unknown.

In "The Comic Strip!", a disgruntled cartoonist named Nick Nash turns his comic strip into a weapon of revenge—only to find his own creation spirals into something far stranger and more personal than he intended. Written with a sharp, eerie edge, the story unfolds as a surreal twist on artistic power and consequence, where the line between creator and creation begins to blur.