Dark Mysteries (1951) comic books 1952-1954

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Stories and art by Hy Fleishman and others. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Marilyn calls off her wedding to Phil after learning he has a "strange madness" around dead bodies, but Phil swears revenge. Investigating shrunken heads in Africa, archaeologists Ted and Joyce encounter an unspeakable evil. The Dead Rise; The Corpse That Came Alive!; The Creatures of the Mist. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bill Fraccio. Stories and art by Hy Fleishman and Doug Wildey. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Mona discovers that her husband Frank has made an unholy pact with the demonic creature called Bobo. The ghost-crew of a ship lost on an uncharted island waits only for a new captain to lead them. Steve seeks a friend who vanished in a South American town, and the trail leads to the deadly Cat Woman, in a story with art by Doug Wildey. The Strange Affair with...Death!!; The Vigil of the Ghost Pirates!; Chimes of Death; Terror of the Cat-Men; Horror of the Ghostly Statue. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bill Fraccio. Stories and art by Hy Fleishman, Lou Cameron and Doug Wildey. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Student of folklore Arletta learns a little too much about zombies and vampires. After meeting a beautiful, mysterious woman at a museum, two friends find their novelty souvenir nooses have begun to grow. Settlers stranded in the Western frontier are aided by a ghostly apparition, in a story with art by Doug Wildey. Curse of the Prairie Ghost!; Haunt of the Ancient Castles; Ghost of the Golden Slipper; If the Noose Fits - Wear It!; Cannibal's Revenge. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Jon DAgostino, and Harry Harrison. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Dr. Parker's scheme to turn plants into humans only succeeds in giving plants a taste for human blood. A governor who refused to pardon an innocent man is haunted by a deadly disembodied hand that only he can see. An insanely jealous astronomer with failing eyesight murders his partner and harvests his eyes (haven't seen that one before). The Terror of the Killer Plant; The Hand of Death!; Strange Curse of the Mountain; The Eyes of Death!; Adventure in Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and Jon DAgostino. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. While seeking a legendary lost pass through the mountains, a rail engineer enters a strange shack containing a madman and a woman's preserved corpse. The search for a horticulturist's secret orchid formula leads to murder and terror from beyond the grave. An antiques dealer visiting an old house agrees to marry a woman and learns a macabre secret, in a story with art possibly by Doug Wildey. Terror of the Phantom Trail!; Terror Comes in Threes; Terror in the Stars; Dead Man's Chest; Don't Marry a Dead One! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Robert Cohen, Hy Fleishman and Jon DAgostino. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Gina wants to know if her mother is really the witch desecrating the town graveyard, and so do the townspeople. A racing team ignores warnings that the race car they've purchased is cursed and brings death to whoever runs it. Scientists seeking a missing man in Central America learn that rumors of a cannibal tribe are true. A man who kills snakes for a living meets Medusa, whose connection to snakes is more personal than most. Witches Feast at Dawn; Death Was the Driver; The Horror of the Haunted Castle; The Ghouls Dance; Medusa. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Hy Fleishman. "The Note of Death," art by A. C. Hollingsworth; Norman Conway is made mayor on the promise to buy a haunted house from mobster Jake Lomax and turn it into a school; The witch Mary appears on the scene and starts fires. "Food For Thought!", art by John D'Agostino; Phil Stewart crashes his plane into the jungle and is rescued by mystery woman Kadira; She flees from her cannibal tribe and follows Stewart to the US to be his wife. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "Vampires Bite," art by Hy Fleishman; Doctor Ralph Bowan keeps a menagerie of freaks - a vampire, a ghoul and a witch - in his house, encased in big formaldehyde vats; When Bowan finds out that his wife Lily is cheating on him with his assistant Alan, he kills them and integrates them into his collection. "Sea of Ghosts," pencils by Harry Harrison; Captain Caleb Firth is a slave trader; He murders a cargo of Chinese workers to escape the coast guard; But one of them returns from the dead and comes for revenge. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and Hy Fleishman. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Dr. Horly, in his quest for glory and fame, studies things man was not meant to know and ends up on the wrong end of a vampire's fangs. Monsieur Picard faces a horrifying price after betraying an aristocratic couple to the French Revolution. Severed heads are among the violent pre-Code imagery in this issue. A Vampire Is Born; Terror of the Hungry Rats; A Smuggler Meets a Ghost; Horror of the River of Blood!; Terror of the Hotrod. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and Hy Fleishman. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Phony showbiz psychic Rita wants to know how a competitor speaks with the dead so convincingly. After agreeing to split his gains with the magical Dr. Wong, a successful writer reneges on the deal through murder, but his girlfriend pays the price. Sculptor Roland likes to create masks from the faces of the dead - but what is his link to a string of horrible murders? Voices of the Dead; A Murderer's Mask; Best Seller!; The Lamp of Doom; The Wish of Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and Dick Beck. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Deranged mortuary assistant Garth takes liberties with the clientele, in a truly messed-up pre-Code story. Mountain climbers encounter the "Ghosts of Chomolungma" at the peak of Mt. Everest, in a story that was written before (but published after) the May 1953 first ascent of Everest. Burt and Bernice get rid of Bernice's husband, who loves housecats, but their fate has a feline form. For some strange reason, most of the stories in this issue are told in the second person ("you"). Horror of the Mixed Torsos!; The Curse of the Shooting Star!; Girl into Vampire; Ghosts on Chomolungma!; Death While the Cat's Away. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Jon D'Agostino and Hy Fleishman. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. A man snaps and disposes of his wife in a cement mixer, but her hands somehow survive to come after him. Redheaded Karen is saved from drowning by a skeleton whose whispered message seals his killer's doom. A convict successfully escapes prison by hiding in a coffin; too bad it's headed for the crematorium. Fingers of Doom; The Skeleton's Revenge; An Eye for an Eye?; Terror of the Boa Constrictor; Escape to Death! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Hy Fleishman. "Horror of the Ghostly Pilot!", art by A. C. Hollingsworth; Greedy airplane constructors want their pilots to give their new plane a favorable recommendation; The chief test pilot dies in the faulty machine. "The Vampire with the Iron Teeth," art by Hy Fleishman; A beautiful duchess changes into a vampire by getting implanted new teeth. "The Dead Can Escape from the Grave" text story. "Slow Death in Quicksand," art by Jon D'Agostino; A father goes after a pirate treasure, tagging son and daughter along; All three get greedy and kill the last survivor, who was so kind to tell the story. "Horror of the Cannibals' Dinner"; A cruel plantation owner flogs a girl to death and cuts off the hand of the old witch doctor woman; The old woman commands her tribe to burn her at the stake so she can take revenge; She returns from the dead as a beautiful savage and lures the evil master into the jungle. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Jon D'Agostino and Hy Fleishman. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. A couple commits murder to inherit a farm, but a new miracle fertilizer brings their victim right up out of the ground. An abused boy is aided by the revived corpse of his dead father. A taxidermist finds an especially nasty revenge for his cheating wife and her boyfriend, a wealthy hunter. The Horror of the Walking Corpse; Terror Needs a Stage!; The Ghost in the Mirror; Time to Die; Terror of the Nightmares! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Skeleton cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Hy Fleishman and Jon D'Agostino. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. This issue is hosted by "The Old Gravedigger," a take-off on EC's Crypt Keeper and other horror hosts. In a typically boundary-pushing story, a vampire includes an infant in its list of victims. A ape-human hybrid terrorizes a city. Lady with the Mask of Death; Horror of the Fifth Corpse; Terror of the Man-Ape; Verdict of Terror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Terror of the Burning Corpse"; Lovely Nikki is in love with the juggler Tony; Her colleague Corey, a brilliant impersonator, is jealous of Tony and devises an evil scheme: Corey murders Tony and takes his place. "House of Horror," art by John D'Agostino; A vampire from the spooky Tennant house on the hill terrorizes the town; The three councilmen burn down the building, but fall prey to further vampire attacks. Is young and mysterious Gena, last of the Tennants, the fiend - or someone else? "Horror of the Drowned" text story by Ellen Lynn. "Terror of the Stolen Legs," art by Gerald Altman; In a Nazi Concentration Camp Dr. Franz Burch experiments on finding the secret to bring the dead back to life; Most prisoners are too weak to survive the process, until Burch gets his hands on the handsome and healthy political renegade Rolfe. "Some Die Twice," art by Alvin Hollingsworth; Slave trader Barney Degris takes aboard a tribe of cannibals in Africa; His wife Marna detests his cruelty; When Degris murders a native witch doctor and Marna's friend Philip, Marna throws her husband between the cannibals. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Hy Fleishman . Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and Jon D'Agostino. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. Marie tries to use her feminine wiles to get a good grade from her creepy medieval studies professor, in a story with some good-girl art, possibly by Hy Fleishman. A murdered couple gives birth to a zombie baby in the grave, and raises him to avenge their deaths, in a truly one-of-a-kind pre-Code story. A tow-truck driver has a terrifying experience during a blizzard. Rack of Terror!; Born in the Grave; Haunted Houses; Snow Madness; Never to Die! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Clutch of the Devil Fish"; A sadistic seafaring band of brothers kills whales; Some for money, some just for sport. This arouses the anger of the "devil fish", a giant octopus; Changing form, the octopus comes aboard as the lovely maiden Myra—killing off the brothers one after the other. "Flames of Hate," art by Gerald Altman; Pierre, an old executioner, hires a young assistant, Jean, to help him with his work; Which is to burn people at the stake; When Jean hits it off with Marianne, Pierre's lovely wife, Pierre seethes with jealousy and "accidentally" burns Jean on the pyre. "Shot by a Corpse" text story by Ellen Lynn. First-person-narrative of "a racketeer's moll": When the gang kidnaps a little boy, the woman goes soft and smuggles a confession to the police. "The Living-Dead," art by John D'Agostino; Ivor Blau, lost in the wintery woods of the Black Forest, comes to a lonely house; A lovely girl, Vania, takes him in; Something is strange; Soon Ivor learns that the house is populated with half-dead zombies (a result of a Nazi experiment) and he, Ivor (as the son of the evil Nazi doctor), has to pay with his blood. "Mountain Madness"; Ben and Alan are friends and work as lawyers in the same firm; When Alan gets to be junior partner, Ben is furious and plans his murder; On a mountain trip he pushes Alan into the abyss. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth and Myron Fass. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. On a fog-shrouded night, an odd little man approaches a stranger and begins talking. His tale reveals the truth behind the strange deaths of rival magicians Mord and The Great Gobbo. Sinister Secret. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.