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| Great Lou Cameron cover. Take the time to look at all the detail. And the story it illustrates is excellent too. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| PSA | Lt. Colonel Reginald R. Myers, USMC Medal of Honor (1 page) |
| Featuring | U.S. Defense Bonds |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | On inside front cover. Blurb about the heroics of Lt. Colonel Myers and an ad for U.S. Defense bonds. |
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| Comic Story | Name from the Nether World (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A male and a female vampire battle each other to the death, the surviving bat types a warning letter to "Web Of Mystery". |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 33 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "A small town on the moors of Scotland boasts one of the weirdest stories ever told..."
An innkeeper sells his highwayman robber-friend to the police. The robber gets hanged and his ghost returns to ruin the innkeeper's business. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | From the Graves of the Unholy (6.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | A couple is captured and brought to a ghostly amusement park where they have to fight an evil witch. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Carla; Vern |
| Notes | Bottom of last page has statement of ownership signed by A. A. Wyn, identifying Wyn as publisher and business manager and M. J. Phillips as editor. |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 34 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "The Matterhorn, a huge, awesome mountain, which stands as a challenge to alpine climbers, was the scene of a strange disaster twenty-three years ago..."
When one climber weakens on the way up, he is killed by the other. Reaching the top of the mountain, the dead man waits for his murderer and pushes him off the edge. |
| Featuring | True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Blood Potion of the Black Cult (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Englishman Charles Delavan visits a friend in India and learns that his friend is a killer and worshipper of the black goddess Kali. Delavan has to kill his friend, but is being tricked into drinking a magic potion: he becomes the next in line of Kali worshippers. |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | Bayou Terror (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man marries a Bayou country woman and finds out that she is a snake monster. After having witnessed how she (in the form of Mytoa) devours human sacrifices, he shoots her dead. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Castle Sinister (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man and woman honeymooning in a haunted castle have to fight a 400-year old wizard and his living gargoyles. They succeed. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Thea |
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| PSA | First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey, USMC Medal of Honor (1 page) |
| Featuring | U.S. Defense Bonds |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey (photo) |
| Notes | On inside back cover. Blurb about the heroics of Lt. Commiskey and an ad for U.S. Defense bonds. |
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| Advertisement | They Mailed This Coupon... and Look What I Did for Them! (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Charles Atlas (photo) |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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