Mystic #17

(February 1953)

The Vampire (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Ed Winiarski (signed as Ed Win)

Inks

Ed Winiarski (signed as Ed Win)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-658

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Teddy

Synopsis

Teddy finds the body of a man killed by vampires. When he tries to tell his parents about it they dismiss him to his room for lying. Left alone, his parents reveal themselves as vampires, concerned Teddy might learn their secrets.

Keywords

vampires

Indexer Notes

art credits per Atlas Tales.

Hate! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

B-659

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Mr. Crewe

Synopsis

Crewe has a hairy, unkempt neighbour whom he hates on sight. He goes to Sleepy Junction to get away from him, only to find his roommate is the hairy man. He chokes him and then winds up in an insane asylum where the hairy man is his keeper.

Keywords

Sleepy Junction

Indexer Notes

art credits per Atlas Tales.

Behind Locked Doors (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vic Carrabotta (signed as Carrabotta)

Inks

Vic Carrabotta (signed as Carrabotta)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-654

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Roger Denby; Hector; A vampire

Synopsis

Denby is an elitist psychiatrist who only offers his services to those of great breeding. He meets a fellow boarder at his hotel who is of noble birth and drinks an odd red liquid. The man is upset because he feels he cannot live up to his father's successes. Denby offers to help him through hypnosis, instilling within his friend all the capability his father possessed. It's only then he learns his friend's father was Dracula - and his favoured beverage isn't wine.

Keywords

vampire

Who Am I? (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-337

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Ernest Waller; Mrs. Gaffney; Jacob Higgins

Synopsis

Waller kills Higgins to take his money but fears the police are following him and has a doctor change his features. It turns out to be a detective come to tell Waller he inherited Higgins' estate, but now Waller cannot prove his identity to collect it.

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.

Double Death (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

B-584

Reprints

• in Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #24 (December 1954) [as "Return from the Grave!"]

The Silent Stranger (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Tony DiPreta (signed as T. DiPreta)

Inks

Tony DiPreta (signed as T. DiPreta)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-679

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Emil Reiner; Anton Rovek

Synopsis

As a vampire preys upon the fattest men of Borgy, people fear Emil will be next. A silent stranger with a violin case is suspected of being the vampire and he stalks Emil, terrifying him. Emil narrowly avoids the stranger, but in both instances people who cross his path are killed by the vampire. Finally, the stranger catches Emil in his home and runs a stake through his heart - the stranger is a vampire hunter and Emil was the real vampire.

Keywords

Borgy; Hungary; vampire

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.