| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Weird Bells of Wozzeck (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | American historian Jay Stafford goes to Vienna to unearth the history of the Wozzeck family. Accidentally he unearths Countess Maria as well, a female vampire going on a rampage. Stafford can correct his mistake and disposes again of the vampire. The bells are ringing in affirmation. |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Molno | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #19 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "We have all heard of pet animals that have pined away and died shortly after their human masters have died. But here is the strange story of an inanimate object..."
An old seafaring captain is angry because his son didn't bury his favorite clock with him. The clock appoints the son's hour of death. He doesn't believe it, but so it comes to be. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Macabre Choice Between Two Doors (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vincent, a gambler, poisons his rich uncle to get his money. The uncle's soul is reincarnated in his black cat, Shadow. The cat chases Vincent into water, into a car accident and finally into a trap door spiked with blades. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron | Inks: Lou Cameron | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Could also be one of the last collaborations of Cameron (pencils) and Mastroserio (inks). |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #20 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In 1897, a British archeologist by the name of Luther Powell was making a scientific search in the jungles of Burma..."
Finding the idol statue of Ranga, Powell brings her to London. The idol comes alive, killing Powell and returning to Burma. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Prophecy of the Frightful Image (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Felicia is a "golddigger" roaming the casinos of Monte Carlo and looking for rich men. At a carnival a "mirror of destiny" shows her true face - ugly and distorted by greed. Destroying the mirror seals her fate: Felicia turns into an old crone. |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Sekowsky? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Could as well be Bill Walton on pencils. |
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| Text Story | The Accursed Castle (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Baron Trascu kills a gypsy woman and is cursed for the next generations. In moments of great happiness, tragedy will strike - and so it does. Descendant Frank Trascu can end the curse by blowing up the family castle. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The High Priestess' Spell of Doom (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A railroad exploration team in Iraq runs into a tribe of jackal-people. Their treacherous high priestess takes human form and lures the men into her temple. Engineer Carson keeps a clear head and blows the lot to kingdom come. |
| Credits | Pencils: Chic Stone | Inks: Chic Stone |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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