Mystic #53

(November 1956)

Inside the Locked Trunk! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-446

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man tells his brother that there is a great treasure in a locked trunk that will one day be his if he remains with him but he refuses to allow him to look in the trunk. One day, the brother steals the key and looks in the trunk and finds a passage to another world where a girl is in the same predicament with her cruel sister. The man escapes back to his world and the girl follows him and they leave the brother's house to make their way in the world together.

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

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

The Magic Carpet (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

H-7

Reprints

• from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #35 (November 1955) [as "The Magic Carpet"]

I Entered the Forbidden Lagoon! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Herb Familton (signed as Herb Familton)

Inks

Herb Familton (signed as Herb Familton)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

K-459

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man cheats his partner out of the pearls of a lagoon and the natives curse him until he gives the money back and the waters of the lagoon forgive him.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #55, #8 (1960)

The Threat! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ted Galindo (signed as Ted Galindo)

Inks

Ted Galindo (signed as Ted Galindo)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

K-426

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

Aliens land and demand a representative from Earth to judge for worthiness to join the galactic federation. If the representative is deemed unworthy the planet will be destroyed. So the president sends...his little girl.

Reprints

• in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #1 ([no date])
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #7 (1960)

The Man Who Wasn't! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dick Ayers (signed as Dick Ayers)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed as Dick Ayers)

Colors

?

Letters

Dick Ayers

Job Number

K-465

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #8 (1960), #51 (1965)

Indexer Notes

a story similar to The Twilight Zone's "Steel" but in this story the human fighter defeats the robot.

He Walks in the Night! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-409

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man with mental powers threatens to destroy an inventor that has come up with a machine that could reveal his presence to the authorities, but when the evil man threatens the inventor's daughter, he shakes off the mental hold he has over him and knocks him out with the butt of his gun.

Reprints

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

The City That Sank! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Bernard Baily

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-400

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A pilot stumbles across a submersible city that raises above and lowers below the waves.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #55, #8 (1960)

Indexer Notes

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