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Mister Mystery (1951) comic books 1954

  • Issue #15
    Mister Mystery (1951) 15

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    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Ed Smalle, Vince Fodera, Tony Mortellaro, and Hy Fleishman. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A new drug transforms people into the living dead. A man murders his contemptuous wife, only to have her reincarnate as a vengeful housecat, in a story featuring a death-by-kitty panel. Explorers find a mad sculptor and learn how he makes his incredibly lifelike statues, to their misfortune. Living Dead; After Death; The Coffin; The Time Machine Murder; Nightmare; Medusas Head. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Mister Mystery (1951) 16

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    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Loffredo, Bruce Hamilton, and Sal Trapani. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. Tad inherits an old castle that is supposed to be cursed, and is confronted by a immortal old man with an exposed brain. Lifelong rivals decide to settle things once and for all with a strange knife-duel inside a locked fortress in the Mexican desert. Starving prisoners in a dungeon devise a fearsome revenge against their cruel jailer. Mummy/bondage cover by Bernard Baily. The Immortal Brain!; Wall of Coahuila; The Chase!; The Magnet!; Hunger! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #17
    Mister Mystery (1951) 17

    Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Les Zakarin and Eugene E. Hughes. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. Mobsters all fear the hit man known as The Executioner. A Hollywood director will do anything to win Academy Awards, in a story featuring images of the Oscar statuette used as a murder weapon. A two-bit hood finds an aging pirate's secret treasure stash and decides to secure it for himself. Pre-Code pile-of-heads cover by Bernard Baily. The Executioner; Hen Pecked; The Gambit; Yo Ho Ho; Contract in Blood. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $599 Mister Mystery #17 (1954) CGC 2.5 OW-W Beheading Cover! Red Dress Bernard Bailey

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  • Issue #18
    Mister Mystery (1951) 18
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4373258002

    Decapitation and bondage cover. Cover pencils by Bernard Baily. The Devil's Bottles!, art by Hy Fleishman; Danny Fowler makes a pact with the devil; Four genies offer him their services. Robot Woman, art by Basil Wolverton; Scientist Fozzmo has a brilliant mind, but an ugly body; So he constructs himself a mechanical mate. Return To Darkness text story. Turnabout, art by Charles Stern; Space explorers have to struggle for their life against some giant ant creatures--like the men toyed with ants just a while ago. First Come...First Served!, art by Tony Mortellaro. Ordeal By Wax!, art by Charles Stern; A murderer finds employment in a wax museum and has to lure victims inside. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #19
    Mister Mystery (1951) 19
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • All three edges trimmed.
    • Label #4245195002
    • 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached.

    Cover by Eugene E. Hughes. Stories and art by Ed Robbins, John Bulthuis, and Ed Smalle. Pre-Code horror tales from Aragon, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. A man who loves all forest creatures is befriended by the spirits of the wood, but his boss, a hunter, isn't so lucky. A killer swears that he'll never go to the chair and escapes prison, but the cops aren't the only ones looking for him. A scientist creates a formula that gives him plant-like capabilities and battles a gangster, 20 years before Dr. Alec Holland created his bio-restorative formula. The Man with the Green Thumb; The Killer; What's in a Name?; The Man Who Beat the Chair; The Wedding Eve. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.