Dark Mysteries #10

(December 1952 - January 1953)

Save Your Hair (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Comate Laboratories Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Note of Death (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Alvin Hollingsworth (signed as A. C. Hollingsworth)

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Alvin Hollingsworth (signed as A. C. Hollingsworth)

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Norman was an ambitious man... too ambitious!

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Norman Conway is made mayor on the promise to buy a haunted house from mobster Jake Lomax and turn it into a school. The witch Mary appears on the scene and starts fires.

Food For Thought! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Jon D'Agostino (signed as John D'Agostino)

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Jon D'Agostino (signed as John D'Agostino)

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How in God's name am I ever going to land in that jungle?

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Phil Stewart crashes his plane into the jungle and is rescued by mystery woman Kadira. She flees from her cannibal tribe and follows Stewart to the US to be his wife. But night after night Kadira steals away from home to kill strangers and eat their flesh.

Amazing Bargains (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Consumers' Mart / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Grave Information (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Ellen Lynn (credited)

Letters

typeset

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Sandlow was a thriving little town.

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Cinema owner Dick tries to expose the mind reader Barrie as a fake, but Barrie predicts a death case correctly.

Vampires Bite (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Hy Fleishman

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Hy Fleishman

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Ralph was a collector... of supernatural freaks from all over the world!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Doctor Ralph Bowan

Synopsis

Doctor Ralph Bowan keeps a menagerie of freaks - a vampire, a ghoul and a witch - in his house, encased in big formaldehyde vats. When Bowan finds out that his wife Lily is cheating on him with his assistant Alan, he kills them and integrates them into his collection.

Reprints

• in Vampires Halloween Special (Asylum Press, 2022 series) #1 (2022)

Sea of Ghosts (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Harry Harrison (signed as Hh)

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Leroy lettering

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A slave trader-- a man who trades in human flesh, has little room for pity in his heart.

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Captain Caleb Firth

Synopsis

Captain Caleb Firth is a slave trader. He murders a cargo of chinese workers to escape the coast guard. But one of them returns from the dead and comes for revenge.

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Dream Girl Fashions / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Save 70% Sacrifice Sale Swiss Watches (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

U. S. Diamond House / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Reducing Weight Specialist Says: Lose Weight Where it Shows Most (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

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