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| Publication | November 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Cover | Five Miles Down |
| Featuring | Mysterious Traveler |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mysterious Traveler |
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| Comic Story | The Grand Vizier's Reward (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The King of India rewards Sissa Ben Dahir, the inventor of chess, with grains of wheat on a chessboard. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Historical | Characters: Sissa Ben Dahir; King of India |
| Notes | on inside front and back covers |
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| Comic Story | Five Miles Down (12 pages) |
| Featuring | Mysterious Traveler |
| Credits | Script: Robert A. Arthur (original radio story); David Kogan (original radio story);? (adaptation) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Mysterious Traveler |
| Notes | Per the fanzine, Fantasy Times (James V. Taurasi and Raymond Van Houten, 1941 series) #67 (July 1948), as reported by Art Lortie (10 September 2015) on the GCD-Chat discussion list, story is based on the radio episode "Five Miles Down." The show was broadcast twice (9 February 1947 and 4 July 1950) on the Mutual Broadcasting System and no known copies of the original broadcast episode appears to exist. |
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| Comic Story | The Tell Tale Heart (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Famous Tales of Terror |
| Credits | Script:? (comic adaptation) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | All information for this sequence from John Haufe, April 2008. Updated with possible artist ID August 2009. |
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| Text Story | The Mystery of the Five Fingers (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Mysterious Traveler |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mysterious Traveler |
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| Comic Story | Raw Deal (8 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Leopold Atlas (movie script); John C. Higgins (movie script);? (adaptation) |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | Adapted from the then "soon to be showing at your favorite theatre..." Eagle-Lion studio production by the same name. Staring Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Burr, Marsha Hunt, Claire Trevor, John Ireland and Chile Williams.
See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040723/ for more information about the movie. |
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| Comic Story | Take a Trip to India (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Mysterious Traveler |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Mysterious Traveler |
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| Featuring | Beauty Trix Wallet |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
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