Mystery Tales #50

(February 1957)

The House of Evil! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Angelo Torres (signed)

Inks

Angelo Torres (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-127

Synopsis

A crook tries to rob an old man who lives in a house with a spell on it and finds that he has exchanged bodies with the old man.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #57
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19 (1963 ?), #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #223 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

The Little Black Box (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-208

Synopsis

A scientist invents a device that makes people susceptible to suggestion and a car salesman gets ahold of it.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19 (1963 ?)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #31 (1968 ?) [Black and white.]
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #223 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Drawings of Doom! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ted Galindo (signed)

Inks

Ted Galindo (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-275

Synopsis

A criminal attempts to force an artist whose pictures magically appear in real life to draw him a car with a big stack of money, but the artist simply draws him behind bars.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #73, #19 (1963 ?), #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #223 ([circa 1984 - 1985]), #224 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

The Man with Two Lives! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

Vince Colletta

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

L-235

Synopsis

Only one of two embezzlers get caught, but the convict threatens to get even with his partner who was not suspected. When the man returns home, he finds a doppelganger of the convict waiting for him. They struggle, and the doppelganger dies during the fight. He hears on the radio that the convict in prison has died at the same moment the doppelganger perishes. He is so flustered by the incident that he confesses his role in the crime to the police.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #73, #19 (1963 ?), #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #223 ([circa 1984 - 1985]), #224 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer credited Vince Colletta pencils.

The Wishing Stone (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marie Severin (illustrations)

Inks

Marie Severin (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

H-401

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Johnny (only appearance)

Synopsis

Johnny finds a magic wishing stone, but wishes it away because magic would make life no fun.

Reprints

• from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #41 (January 1956)
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #24

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

When the World Vanished! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Gray Morrow (signed)

Inks

Gray Morrow (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-269

Synopsis

This story postulates that the world is 'cleaned' occasionally and all the people are moved into another world briefly while this is done and then transferred back.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19 (1963 ?)
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #31 (1966)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #223 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

The Pyramid's Secret (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed)

Inks

John Forte (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-242

Synopsis

An Egyptian tomb raider finds himself with privileged knowledge of a tomb and figures that the only way he could possess this knowledge is if he is the reincarnation of the Pharaoh, but it turns out that he is merely the reincarnation of one of the Pharaoh's slaves and falls victim to one of the tomb's pitfalls.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #24

Indexer Notes

Forte credits by Michael J. Vassallo, 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.)