| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Advertisement | New Reducing "Miracle" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Charm Co. |
| Notes | The inside front cover contains Charm Company advertisement plus the publisher & indicia information at the bottom of the page. |
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| Comic Story | One Door from Disaster (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The cop Mike Young arrests a beautiful vampire lady named Velma. He is seduced by her and falls in love. He helps her overcome her vampire heritage, but the untroubled togetherness will not last. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 53 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Little is known of the fabulous situation which existed many centuries ago in the foothills of the Andes mountains of south America..."
Discovering a king's burial chambers, three explorers confront living mummies and one of the men is captured and made into another mummy. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Valley of the Scaly Monsters (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the steaming Amazon jungle, "Creature from the Black Lagoon"-like creatures kidnap a woman from an expedition. They drug her and want to make her the queen of the lizard people. Her boyfriend intervenes and buries the creatures under an avalanche of rocks. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Jim Vadeboncoeur refers to this artist, Frank Giusto, as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE. |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 54 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Paris was in the throes of a fearful crime wave in the summer of 1893..."
A son imitates his father's crimes and is beheaded by the wax dummy of the executioner who beheaded his criminal father 30 years earlier. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Mission of Lost Souls (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The witch Zita must supply Satan with men's souls. To this purpose Zita runs a derelicts' home, the "Mission of Lost Souls", forcing her residents into a pact with the devil. The reporter Sam Brant goes in undercover and puts an end to Zita's evil reign. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | The Brass Talisman (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Psychologically blocked painter Varsko murders the hypnotist Lorenz, who helped him overcome his blockage by use of a magic talisman. Now in possession of the piece, Varsko makes a fatal slip-up. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Enigma of the Unscheduled Passenger (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lucinda Dell meets stranger on a train. When he gets off, he leaves his wallet. The woman investigates. A murder mystery unravels. In the end the wrongdoer gets exposed. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | ENIGMA OF THE UNSCHEDULED PASSENGER is a retelling of a segment of "Four Star Playhouse" called "The Man on the Train" which was telecast 15 Jan. 1953 a year prior to the magazine date. The role of Lucinda Dell is played by David Niven as a London businessman who meets a stranger on the train. Also, Daniel Cohen authored "Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors" which also includes this story, so says IMDB. This episode is also on the DVD collection "Four Star Playhouse, Volume One."." |
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| Advertisement | Get Rid of Ugly Pimples This New Easy Way! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Kerplax |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | The inside back cover contains an advertisement for Underwood Laboratories' Kerplax acne remedy. |
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| Advertisement | Amazing New Way to a Slimmer Figure (1 page) |
| Featuring | American Healthaids Company |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo);? | Inks:? (photo);? |
| Notes | Advertisement on the back cover. |
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