Journey into Mystery Vol 1 15

Journey into Mystery Vol 1 #15 Published April, 1954 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Sol Brodsky Carl Burgos Stan Goldberg "Satan Can Wait" Penciler Paul Reinman Inker Paul Reinman Editor Stan Lee "Killer in the House" Letterer Typeset Editor Stan Lee "Till Death Do Us Part" Penciler Vic Carrabotta Inker Vic Carrabotta Editor Stan Lee "The Face That Followed" Writer Paul S. Newman Penciler Al Luster Inker Al Luster Editor Stan Lee "Bewitched" Penciler Mannie Banks Inker Mannie Banks Editor Stan Lee "The Man Who Was Nobody" Writer Paul S. Newman Penciler Ed Winiarski Inker Ed Winiarski Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Journey into Mystery #14 Journey into Mystery #16

Appearing in "Satan Can Wait"

Featured Characters:

• Danny

Supporting Characters:

• Bill (Bartender)
• Danny's Friends
  • Jim
  • Burt
  • Unnamed Other

Antagonists:

• "Satan"

Other Characters:

• Danny's Wife (Unnamed)
• Danny's Son (Unnamed)
• Danny's Daughter (Unnamed)
• Danny's Father (Unnamed) (Mentioned) (Death)
• Portsmouth Factory Staff
  • Wilson
  • Other Employees (Unnamed)

Races and Species:

• Demons (Vision)
• Humans
• Bears (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New Hampshire
      • Bar and Grill
      • Portsmouth
        
        

Synopsis for "Satan Can Wait"

When a man enters a bar and, as a gag, offers a skeptic a contract for his soul for one million dollars the skeptic signs it. No one sees the stranger leave, but a coincidence leaves the signer one million dollars from a will. As time goes by, the contract worries away at him distorting his personality from likable to hostile. His employees hate him and his family leave him. One day he receives a visitor and it turns out to be the man with the contract looking for work. The skeptic is so angered that his life has been changed so dramatically by a practical joke that he seizes a heavy candlestick and kills the stranger. Now he feels that he has sold his soul to the Devil in actuality and walks out into the dark for Satan to claim him.

Appearing in "Killer in the House"

This story is a reprint of the comic
Amazing Detective Cases #13.

Synopsis for "Killer in the House"

This story is a reprint of the comic
Amazing Detective Cases #13.

Appearing in "Till Death Do Us Part"

Featured Characters:

• Herbert

Supporting Characters:

• Stella

Other Characters:

• Chief of police (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Dogs (Vision)
• Mutated Humans

Locations:

• Earth-54415
  
  

Synopsis for "Till Death Do Us Part"

A man finally works up the nerve to strangle his cheating wife but an atomic war breaks out, and the two of them find their bodies fused together by atomic radiation.

Appearing in "The Face That Followed"

Featured Characters:

• Tony Trent (Death)

Antagonists:

• Hermit (Unnamed) (Death)

Other Characters:

• Prison Guards
• Prison Warden (Unnamed)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Dogs
• Rats

Locations:

• Prison (Unnamed)
• Bedford
  
  

Synopsis for "The Face That Followed"

An escaped convict vows to haunt a hermit who has murdered him after ascertaining where the stolen loot was buried. When the police show to the hermit's hut they gun him down because, unknown to him, his face is now that of the man he killed.

Appearing in "Bewitched"

Featured Characters:

• Prudence Mann (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

• Caleb (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

• Elders (Only in flashback)
• Judge (Only in flashback)
• "Satan" (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Horses

Locations:

• Earth (1626)
  • Massachusetts
    • Salem (First appearance)

Events:

• Salem Witch Trials
  
  

Synopsis for "Bewitched"

In 1686 a man asks a woman to marry him and is turned down so he plants evidence to get her condemned as a witch. They pursue her through the forest and the man hurts his leg so they leave him behind to pursue her. She returns to the man to get revenge and says "So you called me a witch? Well, you were right!".

Appearing in "The Man Who Was Nobody"

Featured Characters:

• "Greg Garlan" (Agent Beta-1) (Death)

Supporting Characters:

• Martians (Unnamed)

Other Characters:

• Travel Agent (Unnamed)
• P.S. 13 Public School
  • Principal (Unnamed)
  • Miss Thomas (4th grade teacher) (Mentioned)
  • Miss James (8th grade teacher) (Mentioned)
• Lake Auto Works
  • Clem Casey (Mentioned) (Dead)
• Clerk (Unnamed)
• Bureau of Health
• Bellevue' staff
  • Doctor (Unnamed)
  • Nurse (Unnamed)
  • Guards
• Napoléon Bonaparte (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Robots
• Martians

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • New York City
        • P.S. 13
        • Lake Auto Works
        • Bellevue
    • Washington (Mentioned)
  • Europe (Mentioned on a poster)
    • Paris (Mentioned)
    • Rome (Mentioned)
  • Bermuda (Mentioned on a poster)
• Mars
  
  

Synopsis for "The Man Who Was Nobody"

A Martian sleeper agent is eradicated when his usefulness is ended due to incarceration in an asylum. He was committed because he had tried to obtain a passport and could provide no official documentation that he existed.

Notes

• "Satan Can Wait" is reprinted in Vampire Tales #1.
• "Till Death Do Us Part" is reprinted in Curse of the Weird #3 & Vault of Evil #4.
• "The Face That Followed" is reprinted in Vault of Evil #4.
• "Bewitched" is reprinted as "Witch Hunt" in Vampire Tales #2.
• "The Man Who Was Nobody" is reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #8.

See Also

• 4 Image(s) from Journey into Mystery Vol 1 15
• 7 Reprints of Journey into Mystery Vol 1 15

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