Journey Into Unknown Worlds Vol 1 5

Journey Into Unknown Worlds #5
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Art by: Stan Goldberg
Release Date	February 22, 1951
Cover Date	June, 1951
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Stan Lee

1. "Look -- If You Dare"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Uncredited
Penciler(s)	William Robert Brown
Inker(s)	Uncredited
Colorist(s)	Uncredited
Letterer(s)	Uncredited
Editor(s)	Stan Lee
2. "Trapped in Space"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Uncredited
Penciler(s)	Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s)	Uncredited
Colorist(s)	Uncredited
Letterer(s)	Uncredited
Editor(s)	Stan Lee
3. "Mantrap!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Uncredited
Penciler(s)	Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s)	Uncredited
Colorist(s)	Uncredited
Letterer(s)	Typeset
Editor(s)	Stan Lee
4. "The Last Plunge"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Hank Chapman
Penciler(s)	Uncredited
Inker(s)	Jack Abel
Colorist(s)	Uncredited
Letterer(s)	Uncredited
Editor(s)	Stan Lee
5. "Two Worlds in One!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Uncredited
Penciler(s)	Chic Stone
Inker(s)	Chic Stone
Colorist(s)	Uncredited
Letterer(s)	Uncredited
Editor(s)	Stan Lee

Appearing in "Look -- If You Dare"

Featured Characters:

• Ambrose Jones (Bookkeeper)

Supporting Characters:

• Agnes Jones

Antagonists:

• Unidentified alien species
  • Telescope shop proprietor
    • his assistants (mentioned)

Locations:

• Earth
  • Telescope store / clothes store
  • Jones' home, 36 Whipple Street
  • Office of Strategic Civilian Defense
  • Daily Goble
• Jupiter
• Mars
• Mercury
• North Star
• Saturn
• Uranus

Items:

• The super-lens telescope
• Coffee

Vehicles:

• Alien ships

Synopsis for "Look -- If You Dare"

A man buys a telescope with a powerful lens from an alien spy. The man sees an impending invasion fleet through the telescope. The alien spy tracks him down and knocks him out and switches the telescope with a normal one so that no one knows the man got the powerful telescope by accident.

Appearing in "Trapped in Space"

Featured Characters:

• Ollie Clyde

Supporting Characters:

• strongman
• barker
• Police detective

Antagonists:

• Ernest Zodus
• The people in the Kingdom of Zodus

Other Characters:

• Fred
• Houdini (Mentioned)

Locations:

• The Room From Which You Never Return
• The Kingdom of Zodus
• 7th dimension (Mentioned)
• United States of America
  • Arizona
    • Grand Canyon
  • California (Only in flashback)
    • San Francisco (Only in flashback)
  • Mississippi River (Mentioned)
• Italy (Only in flashback)
  • Pompeii (Only in flashback)
  • Tuscany (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Pisa (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
      • Leaning Tower of Pisa (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Nile River (Mentioned)

Synopsis for "Trapped in Space"

The Master of Zodus captures Earth people for slaves by setting up The Room of No Return in carnival attractions.

Appearing in "Mantrap!"

Featured Characters:

• Johnny Ryan (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Unnamed Ghoulish Sailor

Antagonists:

• S.S. Lorelei
  • Numerous unnamed vampires

Other Characters:

• Unnamed Dispatcher
• Sailors
  • Two unnamed sailors
• Devil (Mentioned in narration)
• NYPD
  • Unnamed Sergeant

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Ghosts (Mentioned in narration)
• Seagulls
• Bats
• Vampires

Locations:

• Earth-616
  • Earth
    • North America
      • United States of America
        • New York
          • New York City
            • Manhattan
              • Front Street
                • Seaman's Hiring Hall
                • Pier 10
                • Pier 1 (Mentioned)
          • North River

Vehicles:

• S.S. Lorelei (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Mantrap!"

Johnny Ryan, an able bodied seaman, acquires a job on the S.S Lorelei. While heading towards the ship a ghoulish sailor warns him that it is filled with vampires and that he had seen their coffins. Johnny shrugs off the man and assumes him to be drunk and continues on his way. Upon boarding the ship he finds it empty where sailors usually reside. Checking the cargo he learns the sailor was telling the truth as he sees numerous coffins on board. As the sun fades the crew of vampires attack him. Barely escaping the ship with his life, he contacts the authorities. The police send a patrol care and inform him that not only does no such ship exist but the pier it was supposedly docked at burned down in a fire six months prior.

Appearing in "The Last Plunge"

Featured Characters:

• George Louka
• Laura Leeds

Supporting Characters:

• Piscus

Other Characters:

• Emma (Mentioned)
• Satan (Unidentified) (Earth-616) (Mentioned)

Locations:

• city (inferred to be New York City as the bridge is identified
  • Queensborough Bridge
• The Land Between Life and Death
• Hades (Mentioned)

Synopsis for "The Last Plunge"

Suicides who leap off bridges must pay the penalty of being transformed into fish.

Appearing in "Two Worlds in One!"

Featured Characters:

• Dig Willers

Supporting Characters:

• Professor James Stanley

Antagonists:

• Supreme Ra
• Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
• F.B.I.

Other Characters:

• Policemen
• Victims

Locations:

• Chicago
• Egypt in 2049
• Washington, D.C.
  • District Federal Courtroom
  • 86th Street
    • 86th street station
  • Central Park
  • Cleopatra's Needle

Vehicles:

• East Side Express Train

Synopsis for "Two Worlds in One!"

When a man passes through a time machine to the year 2049, he is told that he can only remain for thirty days in one era before returning to the other, else he will die.

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