Mystery in Space #49
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Sky-High Man!", Brad Stanton and Jim Kirby take a job as space-miners after answering a tantalizing ad promising $1,000 a day—only to discover their workday stretches to an astonishing 24,000 hours. Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Manny Stallman with inks by John Giunta, this 1959 DC adventure blends wry humor and sci-fi oddity in a story that turns time itself into the ultimate challenge. The cover, a striking piece by Gil Kane, captures the surreal scale of the asteroid world they’ve signed up for.
In "The 24,000-Hour Day!" from Mystery in Space #49 (1959), two prospectors, Brad Stanton and Jim Kirby, take a job mining on an asteroid where a single day stretches to 24,000 hours—long enough to make a thousand dollars feel like a lifetime. The story unfolds as they grapple with the mind-bending scale of time on a world where every moment drags on like an eternity.
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Reprinted in The Hundred Comic Monthly #33 (1959), Sidéral #17 (1959), Sidéral #18 (1959), Five-Score Comic Monthly #19 (1959), Titanes Planetarios #75 (1959), Mystery in Space #9 (1960), Green Lantern #26 (1964), Race for the Moon #17 (1964), Justice League of America #30 (1964), Detective Comics #333 (1964), From Beyond the Unknown #9 (1971), From Beyond the Unknown #10 (1971), Monde Futur #7 (1972), Flash #17 (1974), Big Boss #43 (1979), Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics #[nn] (1980)
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