Mystic
#55
L. Miller & Son,
1960 Series
- Price
- 1' [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- L. Miller & Co. (Hackney) Ltd.
- Brand
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L. Miller & Co. (Hackney) LTP
[no title indexed]
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
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from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 [Regular Edition] (March 1964)
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Captain America Joins... The Avengers!
The Avengers / comic story / 23 pages
- Job Number
- X-587
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Step forward, Captain America!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Rick Jones; Teen Brigade; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Atlanteans; a D'Bari; Bucky Barnes (cameo flashback); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- Namor attacks a group of eskimos and throws their idol into the sea. When the ice melts, the figure trapped within turns out to be Captain America, in suspended animation since the end of World War II. The Avengers rescue Cap and return to New York. An alien figure turns our heroes to stone. When Cap and Rick Jones track him down, the alien agrees to restore the Avengers if they agree to help him recover his broken space ship in return. When doing so, the Avengers are attacked by Namor and his people. The restored spaceship ultimately drives off Namor and his men.
- Reprints
- from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (March 1964)
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- Keywords
- D'Bari
The Effigy
comic story / 4 pages
- 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
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956)
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The Fish Men!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-637
- Synopsis
- Fish men plot to take over the surface, but when they actually venture up there, they find the limitless space psychologically discomforting and the sun burns their skin. They return to the home beneath the waves that they are familiar with.
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #52 (April 1957)
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Indexer Notes
Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).
They Wait in the Caves!
comic story / 4 pages
- 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
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956)
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Morton's Machine!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-102
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Mystical Tales (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (October 1956)
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The Secret of the Iron Needle!
comic story / 4 pages
- 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
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956)
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The Changing Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-737
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man who works as a security guard is envying the easy jobs he imagines his fellow bus passengers to have when the bus is struck by lightning and he finds himself becoming one with the other men in succession. It turns out two of them have dangerous construction jobs and the third, Matt Grimm, is a test pilot whose plane catches fire and he has to bail out. He tells his story to his wife who thinks it's a pack of lies, when suddenly he transforms into the only other man he hasn't been, the bus driver.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #60 (June 1957)
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Out of the Fog!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-819
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man goes back in time to Arthur's court and attempts to make himself king, but he lacks the knowledge of metallurgy and chemistry to build 20th century weapons and gadgets so he becomes Arthur's sorcerer Merlin.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #55 (January 1957)
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I Entered the Forbidden Lagoon!
comic story / 4 pages
- 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
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #53 (November 1956)
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Fulfillment
Incredible Science Fiction / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- unnamed man and wife explorers; patrol ship repairman
- Synopsis
- A man and woman tourist blast off into space, but their robot navigator takes them far off course and they land on a planet they call Millus III. Unknown to them, the natives consider their rocket ship a god, which they worship until they are finally rescued and blast off into space again. The natives witness this and lament the loss of their god they call Ra --- the land where they live and worship called Egypt!
- Reprints
- from Incredible Science Fiction (EC, 1955 series) #31 (September-October 1955)
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- Keywords
- ancient Egypt; I-Ray Stove; Millus III; Ra
The City That Sank!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-400
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A pilot stumbles across a submersible city that raises above and lowers below the waves.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #53 (November 1956)
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Table of Contents
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The Avengers -
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["For the Best Comics and the largest selection ask for Miller Comics"]
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2.
Famous Atomatic Senior Water Pistol
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3.
Captain America Joins... The Avengers!
The Avengers -
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The Effigy
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The Fish Men!
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They Wait in the Caves!
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Morton's Machine!
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The Secret of the Iron Needle!
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The Changing Man!
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Out of the Fog!
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I Entered the Forbidden Lagoon!
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12.
Fulfillment
Incredible Science Fiction -
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The City That Sank!
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