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| On the cover, there is writing on the arm of the monster man in the right bottom bubble, but I can't quite read it. |
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| Publication | September 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Out of the Black Night (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A vampire scare hangs over a little town. When a new boy at school confesses that his daddy is a vampire, the elderly school teacher Miss Albright investigates. Meeting the boy's father she discovers that he really is a vampire. But not the one she has been looking for... |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #39 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In the museum of a central european country, there is a statue of two men which causes comment..."
A sculptor, working on the faces of two struggling men, is killed by his brother. When the sculpture is revealed, the statues mysteriously show the faces of murderer and victim. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | What Was It? (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Brilliant scientist Latham constructs a telescope-like thought machine which pulls alien intelligence down to earth. Having just killed his wife in a domestic quarrel, the alien intruder takes over Flora's body. Alien Flora urges Latham to adjust the machine's beam so that millions of invaders can come down to earth. In a last effort, the scientist blows up his laboratory, thus saving the day. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #40 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "The vampire of Belden Castle, in the Black Mountains of Hungary, is an oft-discussed item..."
Tourists are attacked in their sleep by a vampire lady. One escapes, "but not before he snapped a picture of the scene". When rescue teams arrive to investigate about the photograph, they find only cobwebs. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom Puppet (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Puppet master Lucas creates a wooden doll of Jack The Ripper, and to his astonishment, the doll comes alive and goes on a murder spree. When no one believes him, Lucas (stabbed by his devilish doll) sets the house on fire, and the puppet and master perish in the flames. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lin Streeter | Inks: Lin Streeter |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Peter Lucas (puppetmaster, death); Mrs. Brudge (Lucas' landlady, Edgar's wife); Edgar Brudge; living puppet (villain, death) |
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| Text Story | The Devil's Offer (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a New York bar, a man meets a stranger promising him fulfillment of his darkest wishes. He concedes and experiences in wild visions the murder of his fiancee by his own hands, a hit-and-run cardrive and the the tortures of hell. As the man comes to his senses again, nothing seems to have happened. Opening a newspaper, he learns that all those things really happened. Is he now due for the tortures of hell? |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Horror-suspense |
| Notes | An almost psychedelic piece, remarkable. |
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| Comic Story | Crimson Hands Against Him (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A magician loses his hands and gets new ones transplanted, which belong to a murderer executed 200 years before. While the magician starts strangling people, the ghost of the killer returns to reclaim his hands. |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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