Mystery Tales #41

(May 1956)

Out of the Darkness (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Drucker

Inks

Mort Drucker

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-243

Synopsis

Leonardo Da Vinci builds a spacecraft and sends it off to populate an entire planet with robots.

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #46 [black and white]
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #7 ([circa 1962])

Indexer Notes

Features Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Romita (signed)

Inks

John Romita (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-242

Synopsis

A cruel sea captain is cursed until he can find a crew that will serve under him willingly and respect him but the leopard seems unable to change his spots.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #40
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #7 ([circa 1962])
• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (August 1973)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Features a sea captain named Josiah Wedgwood; no relation to the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).

The Man in the Mirror! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Winiarski

Inks

Ed Winiarski

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-188

Synopsis

When a timid fellow buys a mirror at an auction, it turns him into a real man.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #57, #7 ([circa 1962])

While the Town Sleeps! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Kurt Schaffenberger

Inks

Kurt Schaffenberger

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-56

Synopsis

The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #16 (1967 ?)
• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #20 (March 1973)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #146 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #182 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #219 ([circa 1984 - 1985])

Indexer Notes

Inspired by the story of the "Hero of Haarlem," the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, first told in "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865).

New Century (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-391

Behind the Mask (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Jim McLaughlin ?; Sol Brodsky (see notes)

Inks

Jim McLaughlin ?; Sol Brodsky (see notes)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-203

Synopsis

When a man tries to use a handsome mask to get rich women to marry him they keep dissolving as he proposes. When he has a change in attitude and tries to help a poor girl, he is honest with her that he is only wearing a mask, but when he removes it he finds his homely face has now come to resemble the handsome mask.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #7 ([circa 1962])

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015. Possible McLaughlin pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. Possible McLaughlin inks and Brodsky alterations per Nick Caputo. Nick notes that Brodsky re-drew the main characters face throughout.

This Primitive Planet! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-137

Synopsis

A new metal worker at the shop builds a flying saucer out of scraps during his spare time to leave Earth.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #57, #7 ([circa 1962])