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Mister Mystery (1951) comic books 1953

  • Issue #9
    Mister Mystery (1951) 9
    • Staple rust with migration.
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    • 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached. Only one staple (manufacturing).
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    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Cover detached, centerfold detached at one staple.
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    Stories and art by Hal Kanter, Tony Mortellaro, Ed Smalle, Charles Stern and Eugene E. Hughes. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A monster stalking Forest Hills is somehow connected to the man a taxi driver picks up at a train station. A scientist matches wits with an ant during an experiment. Satan himself visits Herman to learn the family secret of a magic candle that can snuff out life. The Taxi Driver; The Thin Line; Whats in a Name?; Rage in Darkness; Intelligence; Everlasting Life. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Mister Mystery (1951) 10

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    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Ross Andru, Moe Marcus, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Ed Robbins, Charles Stern and Eugene E. Hughes. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A mad furniture designer seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife by turning her into furniture. A pianist who steals other people's music is hired by a mysterious figure to create an original funeral dirge, leading to an ironic comeuppance. A scientist seeking the secret of immortality has an unexpected breakthrough, but it has a tragic catch. Capsule; Modern Design; Ghosts...What About Them?; The Last Chord; Immortality; The Unexpected. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Mister Mystery (1951) 11

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    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Milt Knoff, Jon Small and Basil Wolverton. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A man builds a robotic woman companion for himself, but the tech support is a killer. An inventor creates a time machine just to escape his nagging wife, but it turns out that nagging transcends time. Harriet hates how her orphaned niece always brings home stray animals, but the latest creature is more dangerous than she expects. Beauty and the Beast; The Marriage of Life and Death; First Come, First Served!; Yakity-Yakity-Yak; The Little Monster. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $4,000 Mister Mystery #11 4.0 VG Universal Classic Ant Cover Pre-Code Horror Baily

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  • Issue #12
    Mister Mystery (1951) 12

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    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Hy Fleishman and others. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. Scientists seeking a subterranean paradise where people live forever instead find horrifying monsters. A man gets wishes from a genie and uses them for the perfect crime spree, but makes one wish too many, in a story featuring a pre-Code decapitation panel. Cover by Bernard Baily is the all-time classic "injury-to-the-eye motif" cover, a strange pre-Code horror trend. Shangri-La; Unknown Factor; The Curse of Aladdin; The Monster; The Trap. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #13
    Mister Mystery (1951) 13

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    Pre-code horror. Cover art by Bernard Baily. The Gossips, art by Tony Mortellaro; Three fiendish old ladies spread hateful rumors about other people, driving them into suicide; The dead, however, come back from the grave and take cruel revenge. Vampire, pencils by Gerald Altman; Attractive vampire lady feeds on a group of hobos; The last one manages to impale the creature on a tree branch. When The Deep Purple Falls text story. The Clock Maker, pencils by Gerald Altman; With the help of a witch woman watchmaker Ben Loftus creates lifelike timepieces. Custom-Made Murder!; A man wants to get rid of his unfaithful wife and seeks the services of a contract killer named "R. Sennic." The Picnic!, art by Tony Mortellaro; Hugo Brandt loves to engorge himself on food; He meets a lovely woman who shows interest in him. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #14
    Mister Mystery (1951) 14

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    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Tom Feelings, Ellis Eringer, Sal Trapani and S. Finocchiaro. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A heart surgeon takes a fearsome revenge after she learns her husband is cheating on her. Lloyd and Susan are having a secret affair during an Egyptian tomb dig with Susan's husband, but they learn the hard way not to cross an archeologist. A man gets a glimpse of Purgatory during a near-death experience. All, or Nothing at All; True Love; Terror of the Deep; The Queens Secret; Labor Force; His Last Choice. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.