Mysteries (Canadian 1953 Superior) comic books 1953
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Issue #1
Published May 1953 by Superior Comics.- Paper: White
- Canadian Edition
- Label #3996618002
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"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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Issue #2
Published Jun 1953 by Superior Comics.$325.00
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$89.00
View scans- Heavy water damage. 4" interior spine split/tear at centerfold. Cover detached at one staple.
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"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.
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Issue #3
Published 1953 by Superior Comics.$400.00
View scans- Cover oxidation. Water damage.
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$155.00
View scans- 2" Cumulative spine split.
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- 3" cumulative spine split. Cover detached.
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- Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Tape on interior back cover.
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- Heavy staple rust/migration.
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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.
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Issue #4
Published Nov 1953 by Superior Comics.- 4" cumulative spine split.
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$77.00
View scan- Cover detached. Excessive tape. 5 1/2" spine tear. Water damage.
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"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.
