Issue: #15
Published: November 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the on stand date reported in the Comic Magazine Publishing Report (George W. Dougherty, 1942 series), #129 (October 1952).
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Famine of Chichen-Itza |
| Synopsis: |
The land of Yucatan is threatened by famine. Agricultural scientist Barry Paxton meets Mayan princess Janva. Together they travel back in time and discover vast grain supplies held back by thieving king Tolextl. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
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Adventure Fantasy |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Dreadful Night |
| Synopsis: |
The hobo Matty Ross meets a conclave of witches in the woods and is tricked into taking their blood money - and thus forfeiting his life. He is saved by witch-hunting townspeople, but pays for his sins by going blind. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Death Never Takes a Furlough |
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Four GIs run into a vampire trap in a German castle. They get slaughtered one by one. The last one manages to stake the vampire and shoot down her goulish henchmen. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #30 |
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
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"When Kublai Khan was the emperor of the great Mongolian empire in 1259 A.D., his conquest of China brought him great wealth..."
The ghost of the Khan guards his hidden treasure in person, bringing down an avalanche on all intruders. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Curse of the Yogi |
| Synopsis: |
A British major is haunted by a Yogi curse and finally killed. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Fantasy Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Mirror of Mephisto |
| Synopsis: |
Ralph Dana discovers a parallel universe behind a magic mirror, ruled by the devil. Dana fabricates more of Mephisto's mirrors and lures his relatives into the mirror world, so he can dig up a family treasure alone. His plan fails miserably and he is caught in the mirror. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #29 |
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
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"In a certain section of London, there is a huge, old prison still in use. Strangely enough, one cell of this prison is never used..."
Because an "old hag" hanged herself in that cell, every other inmate tries to commit suicide this way as well. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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