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Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) comic books

  • Issue #1
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 1
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4333897005

    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Living Corpse"; A wife has dreams about a man dead for 10 years. Her husband makes a deal with the devil to bring the corpse back to life; The corpse kidnaps his wife; The husband gets the wife back, but is shot by her. "The Blood Curse"; A woman is killed by ghosts as a result of a curse; A psychic researcher investigates and ends the curse. "The Man with No Shadow" text story. "The Lost World Below"; Two brothers take off in an experimental rocket ship and land inside the Earth in a frozen world; They find a woman in suspended animation. "Fangs of the Wolf Woman!"; A major in the army is sent to Hungary to help the resistance; He is shot but recovers with the help of locals. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $700 STRANGE MYSTERIES #1 CGC 4.5 VG+ ZOMBIE SKELETON GGA PRE-CODE HORROR 1951

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  • Issue #2
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 2
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s)
    • Label #4017947008

    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Swamp Terror!"; A man leaves his fortune to his inconsiderate niece and nephew instead of his beloved sister; They must live in a house in the swamp & find the inheritance. "Chamber of Doom!"; A man is murdered by the ghost of a woman who he had jilted when she was alive. "Ghost Bait" text story by Kermit Welles. "The Haunted Hand!"; A man wins an auction for a hand that belonged to "Bloody John"; The hand steals things, and kills the protagonist. "Planet without Death"; A scientist becomes ill and travels to a planet he's studied where death doesn't occur; Instead, people become trees. He returns to Earth with an alien. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $230 1951 Strange Mysteries #2 Pre Code Horror GGA Headlights Golden Age Cover (GD)

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  • Issue #3
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 3
    • 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.
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    • INCOMPLETE. Piece of centerfold missing, affects art and story. Photocopy piece taped in.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Pit of Terror"; A woman considers buying a castle; She accidentally removes a stake from a vampire, restoring him to life. She falls under the vampire's spell. "Fleshless Horror"; A reporter interviews a recluse; The recluse has no flesh on her head and limbs; The recluse prepares to take the reporter's flesh for her head and arms. "Face with the Blood-smeared Mouth" text story. "Witch Curse"; A woman drinks a potion which allows her to read thoughts but has the side effect of aging; Her friend doesn't recognize her and shoots her. "Peril from Afar"; A college student communicates with Jupiter; Mars attacks Jupiter but is repelled; Mars attacks the Earth; Jupiter pulls the Earth out of orbit to save it. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #4
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 4

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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Hands of Death"; A woman finds a mirror covered with black paint so she scrapes it off; A hag escapes from the mirror and puts the woman in it. "Ghouls Unmasked"; A woman contacts her dead former husband; Her new husband pretends to be her former husband and shoots her. "Revenge in Miniature" text story. "Rat Men of Paris"; A gravedigger finds a tunnel to an underworld of human-like rats; The queen keeps him as a slave but he escapes; The ratmen reach the surface world and are killed by police. "Terror's Prisoner"; A scientist puts the brain of a hitchhiker in a gorilla; The gorilla takes the scientist's daughter. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #5
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 5
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4091493008
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Blood of the Zombie"; A man asks to be embalmed because a zombie colony will think that he has white blood and thus believe him to be a god. "Dead Men Never Die!"; A reporter covers his first execution, and sees the executed man alive later; He pretends to kill someone so that he will be executed. "The Ghost Came Back" text story by Michael Arthur. "Eyes of Evil"; A woman buys an idol which is missing its eyes; Her husband brings home two rubies which are the eyes of the idol. "Bury Us Not!"; A woman answers a classified ad for assisted suicide; Her husband's ghost convinces her to leave. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 6

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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Head of Horror"; A shrunken head pays an ex-G.I. to bring it to its living brother; This scares the brother to death. "Marauding Monsters!"; A scientist is forced by thugs to bring a criminal back to life; He does but the criminal is brought back in the body of an ape. "The Beloved Witch" text story by Marvin Howard. "Dead Man's Curse"; A man kills his partner while prospecting for gold but a curse is put upon him; His wife falls in love with the ghost of the murdered partner. "Doomed to Live!"; An escaped convict becomes disfigured; He's befriended by a dog which stops him from killing himself several times; He hates the dog and the dog is finally killed by a car. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 7
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Staples replaced. Full-length spine split (taped). Cover detached.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Kiss of the Vampire"; A policeman suspects a woman of foul play; He poses as an artist and meets her; She is a vampire and tries to kill him. "Corpse in the Vat"; A medical student finds his girlfriend with another man; The medical student kills her and plans to cut her body into millions of pieces; A ventriloquist causes the man to think she's still alive. "Short Steps to Death" text story by Paul Oren. "Death. Going Up"; Three people are summoned to a hotel and disappear; A detective investigates and receives a note to come to the hotel. "Fit to Die!"; A woman's husband is a cataleptic; The wife meets a younger man, and they bury the husband when the husband has a cataleptic fit; The will was not signed so they dig him up and make him sign it. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $325 STRANGE MYSTERIES #7 CBCS 3.0 PRE-CODE HORROR NOT CGC

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  • Issue #8
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 8
    • 5" cumulative spine split, piece of back cover missing, tape.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Flaming Horror"; A fat man's face is horribly scarred when he accidentally sets fire to his hotel room; He inherits a house and meets a lonely ghost. A man tries to kick him out of his house so he kills him. "Mask of the Devil"; The wife of an evil ruler gives birth to a demon because of a curse; The demon is raised in secrecy and vows revenge on his father. "Brain of Belial" text story by David Palmer. "Through Wicked Eyes"; A witch leaves a pair of glasses for a man; These glasses allow the man to see how people will die; He looks at a picture of his wife and sees that she will be killed by a taxi. "Return of the Corpse"; A policeman and doctor scheme to catch a grave robber; The policeman pretends to die and is buried in a coffin; The doctor is the grave robber and blocks the air hole. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 9
    • Paper: Off white
    • Slab: Scratch on front of case; Scratch on back of case; Scuffing to inner well of case
    • Label #3886194003

    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Zombie Vengeance"; An aviator crashes in Haiti. He finds a house of zombies who welcome him in; He and a zombie woman escape the other zombies and their zombie dogs. "Death Thumbs a Ride"; A man learns that his wife is having an affair; He kills her and her lover and buries them in the basement. "Was It a Dream?" text story by Charles James. "You Can't Cheat a Ghost"; Three criminals search for pirate gold; One fools the others into thinking he's the ghost of the pirate. "Night of Horror"; A writer of horror books has writer's block; He goes to a movie to steal an idea; He falls asleep and when he wakes he's alone in the theater so he runs a movie. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 10

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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Dimensional Knife; A vampire-monster from 139,000,000,000,000 AD sends a knife to a 20th century man; This man uses the knife to kill three people whose bodies travel to the future and provide blood for the monster. Map of Death; A dying uncle tells his two nephews to destroy a map; They sail off to find the treasure and one brother kills the other; The ghost of the uncle tells the brother to confess his crime. The Signor's Circus text story by John Martin. Revenge Can Be Fatal!; A doctor is nearly killed by his assistant and wife; The scarred doctor seeks revenge; He finds his wife stabbed by the assistant, who commits suicide. Monsters of the Night; Creatures who only appear in the dark terrorize a woman; Her father is killed by them. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 11
    • 5" spine split from bottom of comic. Book-width tear in front cover (partially taped). Cover detached.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Dial 'C' for Corpse"; A cataleptic has a phone installed in his coffin; He dies and, after one month, calls his wife who is planning to marry another man; This man drives a stake into the buried man. "Recipe for Horror"; A scientist asks a detective to find out who is stealing blood from him; They suspect the assistant but it's really a vampire masquerading as a pretty woman. "Gift of Doom" text story by John Martin. "If the Coffin Fits..."; A man named Mr. Death tries to sell a coffin from a coffin catalog to an oil tycoon; He kicks him out of his office but meets the man again and again. "Date with the Devil"; A singer with a scarred face hides behind a mask; He falls in love with another singer. His manager rips his mask off while he's singing and everyone sees his face. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 12
    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Cover coming loose at one staple. Water spotting. Cover oxidation.

    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Golden Skeletons"; A cemetery caretaker and his wife discover that the cemetery's skeletons have turned to gold; They take them to their house and grind them into gold dust. "One Second to Live"; A convicted murderer relives his life in the second of his hanging; He sees his mother murdered and his discovery that his father was the murderer. "Fatal Proof" text story by John Martin. "No Escape from Evil"; A woman marries an old man for his money; She pushes him off a cliff. The old man although dead returns to kill the widow's new boyfriend. "Devil's Festival"; The village of Walpurgen in Austria, destroyed by Turks, reappears every 100 years; An American couple chances upon it, sees hangings, torture and stonings, and is almost burned at the stake. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #13
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 13

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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Fraternity of Doom"; A man returns to college for a fraternity reunion; He tells the passenger next to him about a curse that has killed a fraternity member each year. "Death Takes Four"; A veteran with an injured face schemes to inherit his aunt and uncle's money and marry his second cousin; He pretends to be crazy and kills his aunt and uncle, and his cousin accidentally dies. "Terror Town" text story by John Martin. "Grim Awakening"; A defense contractor who makes defective equipment kills an inspector who plans to report him; His nephew dies because of the shoddy work. "Graveyard Terror"; A village idiot frees the monk of revenge from his grave; A padre goes to send the monk back to Satan; He succeeds by driving a cross into the monk's grave. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #14
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 14
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Horror in the House"; A woman kills her uncle who is an engraver, making it look like suicide; His ghost tells the police to inspect the bullets. "The Evil Stranger"; A woman tries to burn her husband to death to collect the insurance money; He escapes, gets a new plastic face, comes back as an insurance company employee, and marries her. "Haunted Hands" text story by John Martin. "Blood and Old Bones"; A man buys a cemetery to dig for oil. A man whose wife is buried in the cemetery kills one of the workers; That man is then killed by the man who bought the cemetery. "The Dead Speak!"; Two men try to revive corpses. One of the men kills the other. He leaves the country and works to perfect his reviving potion. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $250 Strange Mysteries #14 Superior Comics Pre Code Horror Golden Age 1954 Good+ *A4

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  • Issue #15
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 15
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Scuffing on front of case; Scuffing to inner well of case
    • Cover detached. Tape on interior cover & interior.
    • Label #3697690024
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Corpse Comes Back"; A lawyer murders his partner and buries the body in 5 states; The dead man is stitched together and sent back to get revenge; His body falls apart and the lawyer tries to destroy him with acid and bury him in a trunk. "Black Pearls of Death"; Two men force islanders to dive for them to steal black pearls from a sunken idol; Once they get the pearls, they kill the islanders. "Horror's House" text story by John Martin. "Over His Dead Body"; A woman suspects that her husband returning from a business trip is abnormal; His skin is cold and he never sleeps; He refuses medical exams; She cheats on him. "Horror Unseen"; A scientist accidentally turns into a glass man; He steals money and wears makeup to fool his new bride; She is suspicious, discovers that he is glass, and is killed by him. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 16

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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Horror Holds the Reins"; Death drives a carriage and picks up those whose time it is to die; He picks up a couple forbidden to be married by her grandfather and feels pity. "House of the Doomed"; A newlywed couple are forced to stop at a hotel; The hotel is inhabited by a woman and her son and daughter; They are all ghosts. "Digger of Death" text story by John Martin. "Postmark: Graveyard"; A housekeeper and her boyfriend murder her employer, an atomic scientist; The boyfriend dumps her now that the scientist is dead. "Ghoul's Gold"; An escapee of a prison finds a hermit's home; Convinced that the hermit has a fortune, he kills the hermit and finds gold coins; He buries the coins with the hermit. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #17
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 17
    • INCOMPLETE. Piece cut from one page, interrupts art and text story. Glue along spine, heavy oxidation.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Black Flame"; Zombies are found in the U.S. so a detective goes to Haiti; His girlfriend tells this to the commissioner, who is secretly behind the zombie conspiracy. "Skull House"; Two men are eager to get their old aunt's inheritance; One of the men poisons the aunt and frames the other man, who is killed by police. "Highroad to Doom" text story by John Martin. "Devil Mask"; A man has loved scaring people with masks since he was a boy; He scares his girlfriend to death; He steals a rare witchdoctor's mask. "Red Lightning"; A honeymooning couple stops in a town in which a vampire is said to live; While the man is out walking, he meets the vampire who turns him into a vampire. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #18
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 18
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s)
    • Label #0347600033
    • INCOMPLETE. Page missing. Interrupts art and story.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Death Deals a Hand"; Several people join a club in which one person kills another each meeting until only one is left; The remaining person inherits all the others possessions. "Heart of the Corpse"; A man kills himself because he is fired; Another employee kills the mean boss, and is executed; A doctor digs up the three bodies, and finds that the mean boss had a stone heart. "Vengeance Night" text story by John Martin. "Tomb for a Werewolf"; A tombstone engraver is a werewolf who kills villagers and then makes money by carving their tombstones. "Call from the Grave"; Two newlyweds crash off of a cliff; The wife is killed; The disconsolate widower is urged by his dead wife to kill himself and join her. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #19
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 19
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4088784001
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Preview of Chaos!"; A druid has been hired to make it appear that the moon is on a collision course with California so a crook can buy real estate cheap. "Was He Death-proof?"; A criminal sentenced to die promises to get revenge; The judge's daughter paints the criminal's picture; The dead man's ghost returns and kills the judge and tries to kill the daughter. "Terror in the Tomb" text story by John Martin. "I Am Murder"; A woman became photophobic because her fiancé broke up with her because she was too ugly; A blind man comes to her house during a storm. "The Playful Executioner"; An evil spirit causes discord between a nagging wife and her husband by moving objects around; The spirit kills the wife by causing her to trip on the stairs. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $150 STRANGE MYSTERIES #19 VG- Horror.

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  • Issue #20
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 20
    • Cover detached. Mold.
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    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "The Living Corpse"; A wife has dreams about a man dead for 10 years; Her husband makes a deal with the devil to bring the corpse back to life; The corpse kidnaps his wife. "The Blood Curse"; A woman is killed by ghosts as a result of a curse; A psychic researcher investigates and ends the curse. "Fear of the Night" text story by John Martin. "The Lost World Below"; Two brothers take off in an experimental rocket ship and land inside the Earth in a frozen world; They find a woman in suspended animation. "Fangs of the Wolf Woman!"; A major in the army is sent to Hungary to help the resistance; He is shot but recovers with the help of locals; They learn that the resistance members are werewolves. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #21
    Strange Mysteries (1951 Superior) 21
    • Cover detached. Staples added (not manufacturing). Water damage.

    Jack Kamen-ish art and stories. "Death is My Hobby"; A man finds the Devil's Handbook at a bookstore. He summons a demon who obeys his wishes to kill evil heads of state; When his fiancé finds out, he asks the demon to kill her. "The Werewolf Lurks"; A werewolf is killing women in New York City. "Strange Search" text story. "Terror without Name"; Scientists discover a giant radioactive man whose legs are embedded in the ground; Efforts to destroy the monster are unsuccessful but enrage him so that he frees his legs. "Haunt from the Sea"; A castaway is saved by a sea creature who gives her a necklace; She escapes and sets sail on a raft but chokes to death because the seaweed used in the necklace shrinks in the sun. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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    $240 STRANGE MYSTERIES #21 CGC 2.5 Superior Comcis 1955 PCH Pre-Code Horror

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