Mystic (1951 Atlas) comic books 1955 or before

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The Man Who Vanished, art by Manny Stallman; An eight foot tall circus freak drinks a shrinking potion that continues to shrink him until he disappears. The Strange Tree!; A man buys a house with a tree out in the yard which possesses people. The New England Horror text story. Trapped in Time!; A man travels forward in time and finds that dinosaurs have again returned when man has destroyed himself through nuclear war. The Hollow Men; A reporter finds a scientist dead in a castle when the robot he created rebelled against him. Mike Sekowsky art. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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The Jaws of Creeping Death; A man dreams that he is a judge of a trial during the Spanish Inquisition, which no one expects. Dimension of Death text story, art by Russ Heath. The Undead!, art by Allen Bellman; A reanimator brings his wife back to life after being dead for many years and he is repulsed that she is a moving rotted corpse instead of the beautiful girl he remembers. The Man in the Moon; The first man to land on the moon encounters creatures that lack the ability to build space ships but have perfected a will-sapping gas that they wish to administer into Earth's atmosphere in order to enslave the population into building enough space ships to transport their people to Earth. Beware the Eyes of Horror. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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The City That Vanished; After entire cities are pulled into space by giant magnets placed on a hostile planet the Earth people load up a city with atomic and hydrogen bombs to be pulled to its target. The Valley of the Vampires text story. It Creeps By Night!; A man with an intense fear of cats concludes suicide may help him reincarnate into a body without a fear of cats. He reincarnates into a mouse. The Face in the Picture; A photographer with a wife who doesn't want to be photographed is neighbors with a hideous monster who appears as a human woman to the senses but is revealed as it really is in photographs. Trapped!; A man who views space time as a hobby meets up with another man who works as a space time researcher and gets himself caught and shrunk into a small box. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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The Eye of Doom, art by Basil Wolverton; Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth. I Shall Never Die text story. Nothing, pencils by Manny Stallman; A scientist invents a time machine and then commits suicide after going ten years into the future and witnessing atomic war. The Old Lady's Son, pencils by Vernon Henkel; A gold digger becomes the victim of an old lady's vampire son. She Wouldn't Stay Dead! 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Death and Tommy Norton, script by Stan Lee, pencils by John Romita; A boy's toy soldier shoots his aunt when she attempts to murder him. Dangerous Love text story. Horror in the City, pencils by Werner Roth; A man meets a woman who tells him of a war beneath the Earth between the Clabs and the Paladorns; He is separated from her but she returns later, reveals herself as a Paladorn, and kills him in order to silence him. Not Flesh and Blood!, script by Carl Wessler, art by Myron Fass; Howard Walton hires a mechanic, Karl Luger, to build a robot to murder his business partner. The Black Gloves, pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz; A man named Mr. Gamin wears black gloves in order to cover up the fanged mouths centered in his palms. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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The Hooded Horror!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Sy Barry; A gang boss who always wears a hood makes his underlings curious about what lies beneath so one of them uses a knife on him when he's asleep and discovers that the hood really was his head. Haunted Seas text story. Stop the Presses, art by Gene Colan; A reporter is driven to murder the paper's editor in order to achieve a sensational story. The Dummy, art by Vic Carrabotta. The Man in the Tomb!, art by Bob Fujitani; A mobster wants to join a lodge and for initiation they lock him behind a door with the key hanging outside which can be reached through an opening in the door. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Russ Heath. The Witch and I; A Count has a witch for a mother and he forces her to use her black magic to gain advantage over the peasants; As she lays dying, she gives him a last doll and tells him that it is a figure of his greatest enemy; She dies before she can instruct him what to do with it. The Door that Never Opens; The constructor of the French Bastille tricks an abbot into serving as a prison guard, but the abbot gets back at him by locking him into the newly-opened Bastille and then setting the prisoners loose upon him. The Slaves!, art by art by Ed Win; This story is narrated by a strangler's hands who regret the actions their owner makes them do. Invitation to the Waltz text story. His Dead Wife!, art by art by Tony DiPreta; A Nazi spy marries a woman who hates them and he kills her and stashes a wireless set in the coffin which he leaves in the castle to warn the Nazi of raids. In the Wake of the Werewolf, art by Sam Kweskin; A man stumbles into a situation where two people accuse a girl of being a vampire and attack her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Zombie in the Streets, art by John Buscema. Dorothy's Doll, art by Gene Colan; A man buys a lifelike doll for his ill child unintentionally fooling Death into taking the doll and leaving the girl. The Honeymooners, art by Tony Mortellaro; A man strangles his new bride, and when confronted by a neighbor, is told to mind his own business because that is what she wanted; He is a ghost and now his wife is a ghost, too. Isle of no Escape text story. Homicide; Jim Lane kills a bothersome tramp, then tries to frame his neighbor, an inadvertent witness, for the murder. The Ghost Comes Back!, pencils by Dick Ayers; A woman fools a criminal into thinking that her returning husband is a member of the undead. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Russ Heath. Don't Shrink Sam's Head; A man wants to go to Jivaro country so he can acquire a shrunken head for his collection of horror memorabilia but is afraid of having his head shrunk, so he hires a scientist to treat his head so that it is unshrinkable. Tribal Mask text story. The Perfect Planet, art by Ross Andru. Hugo, art by Pete Tumlinson. Mother Knows Best, art by Sol Brodsky; A mother tells her daughter that the man in the moon causes the tides but her daughter doesn't believe her. Afterward, the moon gets destroyed by a comet impact and the seas grow calm. Every Dog Has Its Day!; An old miser who is mean to the boys at a neighboring orphanage gets what's coming to him when he poisons one of the orphans' dogs. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Vampire; A police chief of a village is revealed to be a vampire. The Couple Next Door; A henpecked husband is demanded by his wife to provide something bigger and better than what the neighbors have; When he goes to tell her the latest thing the neighbor's wife got, his wife tells him to shut up and just give her one bigger and better, so he picks up a shotgun and blows her head off. The Toy Train; An orphan boy is visited by a stranger who leaves him a train set. When the boy shrinks to actually be able to board the train, he thinks that he is dreaming, but when his cruel uncle wakes him, he finds the train is still there. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Not Dead Enough" (art by Vince Colletta), "Too Human" (art by Doug Wildey), "The Truth About the Flying Dutchman" (art by Vic Carrabotta), "The Terrible Triangle," "Forbidden" (art by Tony DiPreta), and a two-page text story, "The Bad Omen!" Joe Maneely cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Joe Maneely. The Couple Next Door; When a woman admits to her husband that she is a vampire he stakes her in order to avenge his brother, one of her victims. From Another Planet text story. No Exit; Martians steal New York City and leave it suspended in space in order to study humans. The Unseen; A man finds that he becomes intangible when he pilots a new experimental craft to break the time barrier. Rest in Peace, art by Tony Mortallero; A crook puts in ear plugs so he can concentrate on his plans to rob a bank in peace; He doesn't hear the knock when authorities come by to warn people to evacuate due to a flash flood and he drowns. It Happened in the Lab; A mad scientist creates a Fly-Man from a dead body and flies as its brain, but it pulls his arms off just like some kid might pull the wings off a fly. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Harry Anderson. Stories by Paul S. Newman and unknown. Art by Tony DiPreta, Jack Katz, Al Eadeh, Chuck Winter and Ogden Whitney. The most unusual stories ever told! In this issue: "Pain!" by Paul S. Newman and Tony DiPreta; "It Happened 'neath the Sphinx!" with art by Jack Katz; "The Part Time Corpse" with art by Al Eadeh; "The Man Who Vanished" by Paul S. Newman and Chuck Winter; "The Unexpected!" with art by Ogden Whitney; and 2-page text story "Tomorrow," reprinted from Uncanny Tales (1952 Atlas) #4 (original title: "The Mission"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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The Man Who Killed the Devil!, art by art by Dick Ayers; A man discovers a book with instructions for slaying the Devil and decides the fame would be so great that he will chance it. Fatal Treasure text story. Friend or Foe, art by Robert Q. Sale; Aliens from another planet are divided on how to treat the humans when their spacecraft lands. The Itch!, art by Al Hartley; A miser who is doused in itching powder by a client he cheated goes to an underworld doctor who promises relief for his itching. You Are Me!, pencils by John Forte; A man meets a duplicate version of himself from another dimension and strangles him so that there will be only one of them in existence. What Happened in Midville; An evil postman gives small boxes to everyone in town that they can wish an evil into, but they must accept an unknown box from one of neighbors as part of the deal. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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The Warning!; A creature from Jupiter in disguise as a human warns of an invasion from Venus; After the humans succeed in nuking the Venusians the creature gives a coast clear for the invasion from Jupiter. How Many Others text story. Which Wish, Dish...?, art by Jay Scott Pike; An evil woman gets her wish to be a beautiful, wealthy queen; However, as they lead her up the stairs to her fate, she protests that she did not wish to be...Marie Antoinette. The Hands of the Clock!; A clock maker is arrested for breaking and entering when he tries to feed clocks oil that are being neglected by their owners, but he starves to death in jail because he needs oil for his internal components. The Eavesdropper!; Tony Neely is in a bar and overhears a couple planning a murder. The World Champion; A Martian enters the Olympics and breaks records for every event, but when a human girl kisses him, he drops dead from bacterial infection. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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There Grows a Rose, art by Gene Colan; A florist grows kleptomaniac flowers. The Salesman text story. We're Lookiong for People Who Like to Draw! ad for Famous Artists Course. The Strange Valley, art by Mort Lawrence; A group of tourists encounter an American Indian god. Hit Parade Records ad. Mr. Meek, art by Mort Lawrence; A bald man grows hair and becomes loved and respected but loses his privacy. Man in the Dark!, art by Pete Tumlinson; An alien learns of the goodness in mankind at Christmas-time. On the Air, art by Tony DiPreta; Radio comedian Morty Quirt is tricked by his manager into showing his humanity. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover inks by Carl Burgos. Stories by Paul S. Newman and unknown. Art by John Forte, Sam Kweskin, Werner Roth, Ed Winiarski and Paul Reinman. "Twenty-One Footsteps" -- where did they come from? And why? Find out in this mystic tale by Paul S. Newman and John Forte. Also in this issue: "The Man Who Couldn't Die!" with art by Sam Kweskin; 2-page text story "The Atomizer"; "The Fury!" with art by Werner Roth; "The Old Man!" by Paul S. Newman and Ed Winiarski; and "Return to Nowhere!" with art by Paul Reinman. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Sol Brodsky. Stories by Paul S. Newman and unknown. Art by Vic Carrabotta, Manny Stallman, Bill Everett, Paul Reinman, Bob Forgione and Jack Abel. Nothing could be as impossible as..."The Impossible Man"! Don't miss this mystic tale with art by Manny Stallman. Also in this issue: "A Million Years" by Paul S. Newman and Vic Carrabotta; "The One Who Was Nowhere!" with art by Bill Everett; 2-page text story "The Holiday"; "The Dreadful Decision!" with art by Paul Reinman; and "The Homeless Ones!" with art by Bob Forgione and Jack Abel. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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The Test!, art by Dick Ayers; An experimental psychologist conducting tests on hamsters has a dream wherein they become so intelligent that they escape their cages and turn the tables on him subjecting him to electric shocks whenever he attempts to leave the house. The Genius text story. They Pass By Night!; This story attempts to build drama by leading the reader to believe that a bus and a car are going to collide during the night but the last panel reveals the bus was traveling on the planet Mercury and so there was no danger of collision between the two vehicles. I Can Hear You Think!, art by Vic Carrabotta; After the first atomic bomb explodes children are born with the ability to read minds, which the government put to use as a tactical defense against the Communists. The Man Who Took a Walk!, art by Robert Q. Sale; A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world. One Who Dared, art by Mort Lawrence. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.