{"api_url":"https://www.comics.org/api/issue/739840/?format=json","series_name":"Weird Mysteries (1959 series)","descriptor":"1","number":"1","volume":"1","variant_name":"","title":"","publication_date":"March 1959","key_date":"1959-03-00","price":"0.35 USD","page_count":"68.000","editing":"Joe Simon ? (editor)","indicia_publisher":"Pastime Publications Inc.","brand_emblem":"","isbn":"","barcode":"","rating":"","on_sale_date":"","indicia_frequency":"bi-monthly","notes":"The host who introduces most of the stories in this magazine is a character named Morgue'n, who also appeared in Eerie Tales (Hastings Associates, 1959 series) #1 (November 1959), where he calls himself \"your Morgue Keeper.\" The contents of Eerie Tales #1 may be from the planned, but never released, second issue of Weird Mysteries. Harry Mendryk postulates that Joe Simon may have edited this title:\r\n\r\nhttp://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/4319\r\n\r\nThe art credits for unsigned stories were reviewed for Alter Ego by Michael T. Gilbert, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., and Dr. Michael J. 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