Journey into Mystery Vol 1 61

Journey into Mystery Vol 1 #61 Published October, 1960 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby George Klein Stan Goldberg Artie Simek "I Defied Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Dick Ayers Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee "Lucilles's Robot" "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Ray Holloway Editor Stan Lee "I Opened the Door to... Nowhere!" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee "The Curse of M'Gumbu!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Paul Reinman Inker Paul Reinman Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Journey into Mystery #60 Journey into Mystery #62

Appearing in "I Defied Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh!"

Featured Characters:

• Paul

Supporting Characters:

• High Priest

Antagonists:

• Gomdulla (First appearance)

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Egypt
  • Pyramid
    
    

Synopsis for "I Defied Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh!"

A mechanical being from an alien world visits Egypt thousands of years ago and demands tribute. There is an off switch located on its foot which was how it was incapacitated initially. In the modern day the creature is located in a museum until some playing children trigger the stud once more. That evening Gomdulla breaks out of the museum and recruits a high priest to set up a cult in order to acquire tribute. A man tries to arrest the high priest but Gomdulla interferes. The police officer is helpless before Gomdulla's ability to levitate and hurl the stones of the pyramid themselves and just before Gomdulla administers the fatal blow, the high priest throws himself against the foot stud in an effort to save the man's life. It works, and the priest tells him that he was not serving Gomdulla voluntarily, but out of fear of what he would do to the local populace.

Appearing in "Lucilles's Robot"

Synopsis for "Lucilles's Robot"

Appearing in "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!"

Featured Characters:

• Thief

Supporting Characters:

• Curiosity Shop Owner

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Other Characters:

• Police

Races and Species:

• Humans
  
  

Synopsis for "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!"

A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.

Appearing in "I Opened the Door to... Nowhere!"

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Synopsis for "I Opened the Door to... Nowhere!"

A thief enters a curio shop while fleeing a police officer and pulls aside some curtains to hide, revealing a door. The owner of the curio shop tells him he must not enter that door, but the criminal disregards him. When he enters, the door locks behind him, but there is another door. After he passes through that door, it locks as well but there is yet another door and so on ad infinitum. The owner of the curio shop asks the police officer who's given up on the chase how long the thief's sentence would have been. The officer answers "two years." After the officer has left, the curio shop owner says to himself "Very well. The thief shall remain under my hypnotic spell for two years."

Appearing in "The Curse of M'Gumbu!"

Featured Characters:

• M'Gumbu

Antagonists:

• Iquitos

Other Characters:

• Police

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Amazon Jungle
  
  

Synopsis for "The Curse of M'Gumbu!"

An African tribe ignores their witch-doctor's admonishments against raiding, believing that his vow never to harm another makes him helpless. When they try to kill him he shrinks the entire tribe to protect others.

Notes

• "I Defied Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh!" reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #12
• "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!" reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #13
• "I Opened the Door to Nowhere!" reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #17 & Tower of Shadows King-Sized Special #1
• "The Curse of M'Gumbu!" reprinted in Fear #7

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