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| Publication | June 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Comic Story | Curse of the Condemned Gypsy (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jay Scott Pike | Inks: Jay Scott Pike |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #5 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Shortly after the discovery of America, Don Carlos Rodriguez de Castro, a spanish nobleman, was condemned as a political enemy..."
De Castro became a pirate, fought the spanish crown and hid his treasure well. Anyone who tried to take away the loot, was cursed and died on the instant. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Pencils: George Appel | Inks: George Appel |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed. |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Sekowsky | Inks: Vince Alascia |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #6 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In 1943, Major Carlton Field of english intelligence returned to London following failure on a secret mission..."
Major field encounters Dmitri Falakian, who claims to be in possession of a liquid of eternal youth. Showing it to Field, he loses it and lets it drop to earth. As the vial shatters, Falakian crumbles to a skeleton, because he is 378 years old. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Pencils: George Appel | Inks: George Appel |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Face in the Fog (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man has to get to his pregnant wife in San Francisco. All planes are grounded because of heavy fog. A passenger plane has crashed in the mountains already. The man gets his flight on a small private plane coming out of nowhere. The pilot is the ghost of the crashed plane. |
| Credits | Pencils: Martin “Marty” Rose (signed) | Inks: Martin “Marty” Rose (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| Notes | Signature is hidden on barrel in splash page. |
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| Text Story | Valley of Living Dead (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Greedy diamond hunters are attacked by giant man-eating wasps. |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Persevering Mummy (6.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | In an american museum a mummy comes alive. Dramid cheated egyptian death-god Osiris for 5.500 years and walks the earth again. Police cannot stop him. A mysterious stranger comes to help, disrobes and reveals himself to be Osiris - claiming Dramid for the realm of the dead. |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Giusto | Inks: Frank Giusto |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Frank Giusto is the real name of the artist often called "Ace Baker" for his Matt Baker art style.
This story doesn't look as smooth as usual... |
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