Mystic (1951 Atlas) comic books

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The Black Dungeon; A woman befriends an ugly man who works for her as a servant; The town tailor wants her as his wife and so the ugly servant resolves to protect her from his evil, but the tailor succeeds in leaving Otto to die in the black dungeon. The Faceless Man; A man's unconscious manifestation eggs him on to embezzle from the bank and when he shoots the figure to be free of him, he realizes in his last moments that he has shot himself. The Day I Die; A man awaiting execution agrees to exchange bodies with a Venusian only to discover the alien is likewise a convict scheduled for death. The Shivering Flame text story. The Forbidden Drink; An aging actor offers to "sell his soul" for the chance to be young again and woo the beautiful young girl of his eye. 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 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.

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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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"Hiding Place" (art by Tony DiPreta), "They Can't Catch Charlie," "The Corpse and I" (art by Ed Win), "The Reluctant Ghost," "Guillotine," and a two-page text story, "The Living Legend." Cover price $0.10.

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Mystic #18 features a memorable Bill Everett horror cover for "The Russian Devil!" The cover depicts skeletal communist party official literally dragging the corpse of an unfortunate citizen from his grave. "Get up, Ivan!" shouts the commie, "You can't escape us by dying! We're not through with you yet!" Fortunately, this story was written by a red-blooded American comic creator so the commie villain comes to a bad--and eternal--end. In Old Baghdad; A woman brought to the city as a slave schemes to become the wife of the Sultan but she is unaware of the the custom of that country to throw the Sultan's wife to the lions when he dies. The Drowning Man, art by Carrabotta; A thief cast overboard mistakes the back of a whale for a raft. The Perfect Mold text story. Tom-Tom!; Natives skin a cruel plantation owner and use him for their drums. Charley's Crime, art by Jack Abel; A thief comes back as a ghost to rob a bank but the ghost of the guard he killed stops him. The Russian Devil; The communist overseer of a labor camp is glad when he is told by his doctor that he has not long to live because he has spent his whole life killing and is weary; Death wants an assistant however and refuses to allow him to rest in peace. 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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The Gargoyle!; When the only person who is nice to him is murdered by gargoyles, Quasimodo is blamed and hanged. The Stranger from Space; When a spacecraft lands and a creature emerges, two scientists are at odds with each other on what to do with the being; One thinks it is a threat and should be destroyed but the other stops his attack and helps the creature back to his ship where the two of them blast off. The Mysterious Painting text story. Another Man's Shoes; A janitor has a witch cast a spell which will exchange bodies with a man whom he thinks is well off, but the man's beautiful wife divorces him, he finds out he's bankrupt, and finally he gets shot. His Wife Throws Things. How Many Times Can You Die?; A man has dreams about killing his wife but he gets arrested and executed the same way in the dreams and so loses his nerve. 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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Cover art by Sol Brodsky. Who Walks with a Zombie?, art by Russ Heath. When I Die... text story. The Furnace!, art by Al Eadeh; A wooden-legged captain works his furnace stokers until they drop and there is only the most powerful one left; When the last of the coal is gone, they use wood until that is gone and they are still just short of port; The stoker tosses the captain into the furnace so that his wooden leg provides the last bit of wood they need. Where Dragons Swim!, art by Arthur Peddy. A Grave Mistake, art by Vic Carrabotta. Survival. 36 pgs. $0.10. 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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"The Last Look" (art by Robert Q. Sale), "Clarence!" (art by Pablo Ferro), "The Insult," "How Deep is Death?" (art by Jack Katz), "The Werewolf's Victims" (art by Sid Check), and a two-page text story, "Power of Revenge." 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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36 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.

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"The Man Who Could Do Anything" (art by Dick Ayers), "The Magic Mixture," "It Happened At Night" (art by John Forte), "Just One More Chance," "The One They Left Behind," "The Eager Stranger" (art by Bill Benulis), and a two-page text story, "Patent Pending." Bill Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. The Effigy, art by Wally Wood; A criminal takes an effigy from a voodoo cult so that they cannot use it to compel him to surrender himself to the police. Iron Face!, pencils by Bob Powell; When the communists come up with a machine that can read minds, NATO takes a short soldier and supplies him with a fake head that contains instructions for leading the commies into a trap. The Secret of the Iron Needle!, art by John Forte; Space explorers realize, when the planet they are examining runs down, the giant needle they've found is not a natural phenomenon but the winding key of a giant toy. The Last Laugh!, pencils by Pete Morisi; A ruthless businessman is sure that he is the reincarnation of someone important from medieval times, but when he does journey back into time he finds that he was...the court jester. Mystery Pupil text story. They Wait in the Caves!, art by Mort Drucker; A man finds an island abundant with pearls and gives the location to his friend. When the friend arrives, the natives destroy his boat to keep him from revealing the island's location to anyone else. The Land of Missing Persons. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Who Steals My Brain; A passive alien scout for an invasion assumes a human disguise but leaves when he becomes fed up with human violent entertainment. Tyrant!; A man gains mind-reading powers from volcano vapors and uses them to achieve political power. Time and Time Again text story. The Four Sam Smiths!; A woman pays actors in an attempt to reform her crooked husband by fooling him into believing that an accident with a cyclotron has sent him into a "Mirror, Mirror" universe. The Face in the Air!; A solider saves a brain surgeon from drowning who later saves his life by performing difficult surgery. The Thing!; A Martian pet has misadventures on Earth until picked up by his master. Out of the Swamp; A rich man invests his money in trying to build up a town in a swamp but it turns out to be a mirage. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Trapped in the Ant Hill! The Midnight Visitor!; A writer is surprised when he is confronted by the villain from his best-selling novel. The Strange Prison!, art by Bill Everett; A surface man finds himself in an underwater world where their doctors have converted his body to survive under water; The king's daughter is taken with him and so wishes to marry him, but he only wants her dowry treasure chest and steals it; He passes out on the surface since he can no longer breathe air, and is captured and placed in prison; The king tells him he will serve a two year sentence for his theft and then the doctors will reverse their work and deposit him on the surface. He'd Rather Die Than Tell. Time Machine text story. The Room of Shadows!, pencils by Robert Q Sale. You Can't Hide From the Eye!, pencils by Joe Orlando. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Sleep-Walker!" (art by Richard Doxsee); "Jigsaw"; "Something Waits on the Mountain!" (art by Bernard Krigstein); "What Happened to Hassen?" (art by Mac L. Pakula); "The Fatal Words!" (art by Howard O'Donnell); and "Stormy Night!" Also a two-page text story, "Lost in a Legend." Bill Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Someday It Will Open, art by Richard Doxsee; An anthropologist steals a "thought pod" from a native tribe and uses it to recreate himself at the age of twenty-one. The Thirteenth Floor; A hotel employee is the only one who perceives a ghost floor, number 13 that burned sixty years ago and was not rebuilt. Mister Backwards!, art by Frank Bolle; A man buys an hourglass that makes time flow backwards when he tips it upside down, but when he tries to destroy it, he becomes trapped inside. Too Dangerous to Live; A scientist behind the iron curtain creates an air purifier to counteract the poison of his first invention. Travelling Tom text story. The Strange Sea!, art by Alfonso Greene; When a sailor becomes lost at sea, he is saved by the ghost of his great grandfather, who was the captain of his own vessel. The Face in the Mirror!, art by Joe Orlando; A violent criminal is under the impression that his face is beginning to look like an animal after every time he hits a robbery victim. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.