Cover is based on interior scene but likely not drawn by Powell. Joe Simon may have been involved with reworking of cover. Info per Nick Caputo.
Featuring
Black Cat Mystic
Notes
Cover is based on interior scene but likely not drawn by Powell. Joe Simon may have been involved with reworking of cover. Info per Nick Caputo.
Contents
In This Issue (1 page)
Notes
Possible Nostrand art per Harry Mendryk.
Comic Story
Colorama (5 pages)
Content
Genre: Horror-suspense
Notes
This reprint of the story includes Code changes.
Text Story
Invasion From.. Mars! (1 page)
Content
Genre: Detective-mystery
Comic Story
Unknown Worlds! (1 page)
Content
Genre: Science Fiction
Comic Story
Line-Up (5 pages)
Content
Genre: Horror-suspense
Notes
This is a reprint of "Lynch Mob" from Black Cat #45, with lots of Code changes and rework/softening of many grotesque faces - probably by Al Avison.
Comic Story
Knockout (5 pages)
Content
Genre: Horror-suspense
Notes
Reprinted from "Knockout" in Black Cat #45 with some Code changes.
Text Story
The Landing (1 page)
Synopsis
The spaceship LUNA has just pierced the outer regions of space. Suddenly the ship is seized by a force and has to land on a strange planet. They find a wasteland of a thousand craters and destruction. Barton says that at one time a civilization must have flourished. Then they find a piece of wood marked "Atomic Device Testing Ground". They are back on Earth.
Credits
Letters: typeset
Content
Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Barton; Cliff Drews; Lynn Williams
Featuring
Strange Superstitions
Content
Genre: Non-fiction; Horror-suspense
Notes
Animals listed as bad omens are owl and magpie. A good omen is a cuckoo. The howling of dogs was associated with the approach of death. It was thought that a mouse held the soul of a person when asleep. A black cat was depicted as a witch's companion.
Reprinted from Black Cat #45 with some Code changes.
Comic Story
Cancelled (5 pages)
Content
Genre: Horror-suspense
Notes
Reprinted from "I.O.U. One Body" in Black Cat #45 with some Code changes.
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