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Mysteries (1953) comic books 1953

  • Issue #2
    Mysteries (1953) 2

    "Swamp Horror"; A man chases away a woman who comes to his cabin; The woman is his mother just released from an insane asylum; She dies, but returns every night until she chases him out of the house. "The Screaming Room"; A man has been raised to fear committing any sins; He receives a vase from the devil which allows him to remove a sin from his conscience when it is spoken into the vase. "Goddess of Vengeance" text story. "Monsters Three"; Uranium prospectors are attacked by uranium creatures; Two prospectors are killed; The remaining two evade the creatures until they are hit by lightning and destroyed in an atomic explosion. "Revenge in Small Form"; A woman breaks up with a man when the man's money dries up; The man places a curse on a voodoo doll and gives it to the woman; The man's brother arrives and, although killed by the woman, uses his last breaths to kill the woman with the doll. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Mysteries (1953) 3
    • 3" cumulative spine split. Cover detached.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Tape on interior back cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    "Death in the Night"; A doctor who is a little crazy dresses up as the personification of the bubonic plague, and kills New Yorkers. A police lieutenant kills him. "The Avenging Corpse"; A professor's wife and her lover feed the professor to his newly bred barracudas; He is horribly disfigured, and finds his ex-wife who is poor and no longer beautiful; She kills herself. "The Unknown Horror" text story. "Shrinking Horror"; A crook squishes his scientist friend and steals his shrinking formula; He tries to rob a bank, is chased to a toy store, and makes a home in a doll's house. "Demons of the Swamp"; A man in charge of filling a swamp finds an unknown castle; He finds a woman who swamp creatures chained to a wall. He frees her; He takes her locket and she ages to 200 years. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #4
    Mysteries (1953) 4
    • 4" cumulative spine split.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    "Circle of Death"; A surgeon kills her crippled husband and hides the body with the cadavers; She gives the body to her students to dissect; They find his wedding ring in his stomach; The cops chase her and she hits her head and falls in a vat of formaldehyde. "Ghost on the Gallows"; A man kills his business partner to get the business' money; He inherits his uncle's house, and learns that an ancestor was a village hangman; He is haunted by ghosts, and hangs himself accidentally when a demonic force wrecks his house. "Fatal Betrayal" text story by John Martin. "Eerie Bargain"; A mentally challenged man is shunned by villagers; He becomes caretaker of a cemetery and meets some ghosts; He lets the ghosts out, if they do his bidding. "Isle of Mad Revenge"; Three ex-wives of one man are invited to an island; All three are killed; The man's body which had already been dead for a week is found by the police. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.