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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published April 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Gold Key 10053-304

Cover Details

Characters Boris Karloff (photograph)
Genre Occult
Pencils ? (painted); ? (photograph)
Inks ? (painted); ? (photograph)
Colors ? (painted); ? (photograph)
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page Keys of Knowledge story "The Sea Number 11 Plants of the Coral Reef"

Genre Fact; Natural History
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside front cover.
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

16 page Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery story "Ring of Fear"

Characters Boris Karloff (host); John Ruskin (death); Milo Mead (death); Mary Ruskin; Jack Ruskin; Tim Marker (death); Felix Morro (death); Dan Duff (death)
Synopsis A series of men, beginning with John Ruskin and then extending to each person who has in their possession a famous Aztec Ring, die. John Ruskin's daughter is convinced that their deaths were caused by the ring, and she almost dies before she throws the ring away. It turns out that the ring they all possessed was a fake.
Genre Occult
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Letters ? [WCL]
Notes Cover story.
Reprinted in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #11 (May 1973); in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #20 (November 1974); in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page A True Tale of Mystery story "Jonah"

Characters James Bartley
Synopsis The story of James Bartley, a whaler who is swallowed alive by a whale and lives. He ends up almost blind, his hair gone and his skin turned white. He quits whaling and becomes a cobbler.
Genre Occult
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Reprinted in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #8 (October 1972) [reprint layout=3 pages]; in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page text article "Target: Earth"

Synopsis An article about asteroids and their effects (or potential effects) upon the earth.
Genre Fact
Pencils ? (illustrations)
Inks ? (illustrations)
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page A True Tale of Mystery story "The Secret of Oak Island"

Synopsis The story of the unsuccessful search for buried treasure on Oak Island.
Genre Occult
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Letters Tom Gill?
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

12 page story "Night Caller"

Characters Zilma; Pablo; Jim Brechers; Vince Harper
Synopsis Zilma is an evil witch doctor's daughter. After the witch doctor stirs up evil spirits Zilma is attacked by some creature that no one gets a good look at. Pablo is in love with Zilma and wants to protect her. The witch doctor does not like Pablo, and tells her tribe that she has seen him bring illness to them in her dreams. Pablo and Zilma run away, but the witch doctor uses voodoo to make Zilma sick. Pablo throws a rock and asks for it to find the witch doctor and kill her. The witch doctor dies when she falls off of a cliff. No one knows if the stone knocked her off or if the creature did. Pablo becomes the new witch doctor of the tribe.
Genre Occult
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Peppe
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page A True Tale of Mystery story "The Man Who Lived Forever"

Characters Count of Saint-Germain
Synopsis The story of the Count of Saint-Germain, who is rumored to have lived over 2000 years.
Genre Occult
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Reprinted in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #26 (October 1975); in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page Keys of Knowledge story "The Sea Number 12 Waves"

Genre Fact; Natural History
Script ?
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside back cover.
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.

1 page illustration "Boris Karloff Pin-Up No. 3"

Genre Occult
Pencils ? (painted)
Inks ? (painted)
Colors ? (painted)
Letters Typeset
Notes Reprint of the front cover without photo, logo or lettering.
Reprinted in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1.