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Mysteries (1953) comic books

  • Issue #1
    Mysteries (1953) 1

    "Witch Wolf Terror"; A man returns to Ireland to claim his ancestral home which he moves to the States; A curse was put upon the man's family by the Witch Wolf; The man's secretary plots to kill the man. "Isle of the Doomed"; Two honeymooners die at sea; Their bloated bodies wash up on shore and become animated; Each thinks the other is ugly. "Grim Masquerade" text story. "Club Horror"; A man who is bored with his life of gambling accepts an offer from Death to gamble using chips that represent years of his life. "The Stolen Brain"; A scientist kills an investor and removes his brain; He forces the brain to give him stock market tips; The brain gives the scientist a bad tip. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $400 Mysteries #1 CGC GRADED 4.0 - skeleton cover - Mysteries Weird and Strange logo

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  • 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.
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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.

  • Issue #5
    Mysteries (1953) 5
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0229504004
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Trimmed
    • INCOMPLETE. Piece torn from one page, slightly affects art and story. Cover partially TRIMMED.
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    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. A crook soon regrets stealing a cursed gem from the coffin of his aunt's twin sister, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. After the grisly murder of his wife (in an iron lung!), Bill is repeatedly visited by a woman who looks just like her. Watching a horror movie unleashes the beast within henpecked Horace, turning him into a werewolf with a taste for the ladies. Some horror-comics covers are symbolic, but this cover actually illustrates a scene from the comic, when gangster Big Jim visits a hellish nightclub called the Charnel House. Trapped in the Tomb; The Deadly Double; Mark of the Beast; Horror a la Mode; Call Me Monster. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Mysteries (1953) 6
    • Interior is complete. Full spine split through cover and all eight wraps.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    "Howling Horror"; On a trip to the mountains, writer Adam Hunt makes the acquaintance of lovely Vikki Barstow; Something is uncanny about her, because she keeps dogs with men's names. "Swamp Vengeance"; Trouble in the bayous: Jake Kern kills a man for some precious animal pelts, but is blackmailed by eye-witness Belle; Kern murders her too, by throwing her to the alligators. "The Kill" text story by John Martin. "Evil Disguise"; Sam wants to give his friend Tom a scare; He asks him to come to the cemetery, whither he's ordered some actors to appear in costume; The men are confronted with real fiends from the grave. "Death's Rehearsal"; Peter Edson wants to commit the perfect crime; With the help of his attorney, Tom Ferris, he plans a murder scenario for his philandering wife; But does he know that Ferris is the man his wife is seeing? 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Mysteries (1953) 7
    Auction opens April 6
    • Cover and interior oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Scratch on front of case
    • Label #2039140015
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    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split, both covers completely detached.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. A shape-shifting, demonic figure called The Masher is preying on women in the city, so policewoman Pat prepares to go undercover. Two criminals kill each other for a stolen jewel, but their struggle goes on beyond the grave. Sea goblins abduct women from a coastal town and townspeople give pursuit, but no one realizes the terrible truth. Demon in Disguise; One Was Human; Death in Possession; Blood Oath; The Sea Goblins. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    Mysteries (1953) 8
    Auction opens April 6
    • CGC Qualified
    • Paper: Off white
    • Centerfold missing.
    • Label #4369221021
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Color touch and cover cleaned.
    • Cover and centerfold detached at one staple and coming loose at the other. Staple rust.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. Horror-movie fan Doris wins a Hollywood visit with actor Boris Goff, but then learns how he manages to play vampires so convincingly. The experimental Formula K allows a madman to raise the dead and become a zombie master - but when the woman he loves dies, how far is too far? A man declared dead tries to continue going about his business, but finds that life is prejudiced in favor of the living. Vampire Terror; Corpse, Come Back; Deaths Dark Chamber; The Devils Birthmark; Happily Dead. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $300 Mysteries #8 CGC 4.0 Off White Pages Superior Comics 1954

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  • Issue #9
    Mysteries (1953) 9
    Auction opens April 6
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Color touch. Staple rust. Rust migration.

    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. Fred confesses a murder to the sheriff, but when they go to look for the body, the grave is empty. Linda is being driven mad by strange visions that occur every time she puts on her glasses. Trudy makes a deal with a devilish-looking fellow to interfere in a couple's marriage, but there's more going on than meets the eye. Night Screams; One of Us Must Die!; Call of Blood; A Debt to the Devil; Killers Payoff. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Mysteries (1953) 10
    Auction opens April 6
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Color touch and tear seals.
    • 2.25" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust. Rust migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. A man is pursued by the spirit of the woman he jilted at the altar. A bidder wins "the Hand of Bloody John" in an auction, and is surprised that it turns out to be cursed and sentient. A scientist discovers a strange planet where people become trees instead of dying, but applying that to human life is not as easy as he thought. Swamp Terror; Chamber of Doom; Perilous Pact; The Haunted Hand; Planet Without Death. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $76 Mysteries #10 Randall Publishers Limited Printed in Canada 1954 FAIR

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  • Issue #11
    Mysteries (1953) 11

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    Pre-Code mystery and horror stories from Canadian publisher Superior. Beautiful ballerina Glenda goes to plastic surgeon Doctor Hill, unaware that he's obsessed with her and has plans for her face. Thieves discover the horrifying secret of hunchback Jonas Palmer, but by then it's too late. A woman investigates the bizarre secret behind a corpse that goes wandering from taxi to train to luxury cruise ship. The Broken Mirror; Midnight Prowler; Grim Wedding Day; The Wandering Corpse; Gypsys Curse. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $110 MYSTERIES #11 VG- Superior Horror

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