Mystic #41

(November 1955)

The Test! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Ayers

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

An experimental psychologist conducting tests on hamsters has a dream wherein they become so intelligent that they escape their cages and turn the tables on him subjecting him to electric shocks whenever he attempts to leave the house. When he awakes from the dream, he terminates his intelligence enhancing experiment and gives the hamsters away as pets.

Reprinted:

• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9

The Genius (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

G-976

They Pass By Night! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

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Job Number:

G-778

Content Information

Synopsis:

This story attempts to build drama by leading the reader to believe that a bus and a car are going to collide during the night but the last panel reveals the bus was traveling on the planet Mercury and so there was no danger of collision between the two vehicles.

Reprinted:

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Cass, 1962 series) #231

I Can Hear You Think! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Inks:

Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

G-632

Content Information

Characters:

Dr. Wright; Johnny Downes; Professor Grant

Synopsis:

After the first atomic bomb explodes children are born with the ability to read minds, which the government put to use as a tactical defense against the Communists.

Reprinted:

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #9
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #134
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #161

The Man Who Took a Walk! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks:

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

G786

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Synopsis:

A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world.

Reprinted:

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #134

One Who Dared (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Lawrence [as M. L.] (signed)

Inks:

Mort Lawrence [as M. L.] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

G-834

Content Information

Synopsis:

Mankind retreats from atomic horror to live underground for so many years that the past is forgotten and no one recalls why they had to leave the surface. One boy finds that he cannot be like the others and simply accept the situation so he takes the last remaining shaft up to the surface world. Opening the hatch sets off an alarm and the rest of the security detail follow him up to the surface where they discover a new paradise.

Reprinted:

• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #134
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #161