Mystic #52

(October 1956)

The Effigy (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Wally Wood

Inks

Wally Wood

Colors

?

Letters

Wally Wood ?

Job Number

K-298

Genre

crime; fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A criminal takes an effigy from a voodoo cult so that they cannot use it to compel him to surrender himself to the police.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #55, #8 (1960)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)
• in Book of the Dead (Marvel, 1993 series) #4 (March 1994)

Indexer Notes

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

Iron Face! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-327

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

When the communists come up with a machine that can read minds, NATO takes a short soldier and supplies him with a fake head that contains instructions for leading the commies into a trap.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #8 (1960)

Indexer Notes

Title, page count, artist and job number from www.atlastales.com. Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

The Secret of the Iron Needle! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Inks

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-381

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

Space explorers realize, when the planet they are examining runs down, the giant needle they've found is not a natural phenomenon but the winding key of a giant toy.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #55, #8 (1960)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)

The Last Laugh! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Morisi (signed as Pete Morisi)

Inks

Pete Morisi (signed as Pete Morisi)

Colors

?

Letters

Pete Morisi ?

Job Number

K-321

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A ruthless businessman is sure that he is the reincarnation of someone important from medieval times, but when he does journey back into time he finds that he was...the court jester.

Reprints

• in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #1 ([no date])
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #7 (1960)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)

Indexer Notes

Title, page count, artist and job number from www.atlastales.com.

Mystery Pupil (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

K-382

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude

Synopsis

A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #69
• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #48 (August 1957) [as "The New Pupil"]
which is reprinted
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #21
• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1959)
which is reprinted
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #16
• in Forbidden Worlds (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #5 [black and white]
• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #77 (October 1960)
• in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (December 1961), #24 (December 1961)
which are reprinted
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)
• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #97 (June 1962)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #185 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)

They Wait in the Caves! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Drucker

Inks

Mort Drucker

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-284

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man finds an island abundant with pearls and gives the location to his friend. When the friend arrives, the natives destroy his boat to keep him from revealing the island's location to anyone else.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #55, #8 (1960)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)
• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (April 1974)
• in James Bond (Semic, 1965 series) #44/[1977] ([11 januari] 1977)

Indexer Notes

Job number from www.atlastales.com.

The Land of Missing Persons (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Jim Infantino

Inks

Jim Infantino ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-220

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A mad scientist uses a ray to capture planes that fly over his hidden mountain fortress to enslave workers in order to build his futuristic city for him. He is arrested and his city destroyed by a detective.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #8 (1960)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)

Indexer Notes

Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com. Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 28, No 5, May 2017.