Mister Mystery #8

(November 1952)

Rat-Trap (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Tony Mortellaro (signed)

Inks:

Tony Mortellaro (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Charlie; fat rat

Synopsis:

A prisoner feeds a rat visiting him in his jail cell. He keeps feeding the animal, because the fatter the rat gets, the more the prison bars are spreading - offering him a chance to escape. One day the prisoner is given no food - and the rat feeds on him.

Reprints:

• in Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954)
which is reprinted
• in Shock (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#2 (July 1969)
which is reprinted
• in Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #4 (February 1986)
• in Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #4 (February 1986)

The Man with the Green Thumb (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Robbins

Inks:

Ed Robbins

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Dr. Dana; Tony Drago

Synopsis:

Dr. Dana develops a formula which gives him plant-like capabilities. His newly acquired invulnerability provokes the envy of mobster Tony Drago. Drago tries to take the formula form Dana but is killed.

Reprints:

• in Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #19 (October 1954)

The Cycle! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Tony Mortellaro (signed)

Inks:

Tony Mortellaro (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Pago

Synopsis:

A pearl is the catalyst for murder, over and over, as greedy men fall victim like dominoes to its allure.

Reprints:

• in Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954)

The Worm Turns (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A giant worm cracks through the earth's crust. After being bombarded with an atomic bomb, he splits in many parts and continues to attack.

They Saw the Light (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Frollo ?

Inks:

Frank Frollo ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Arctic explorers find a mountain out of uranium ore, but the radiation changes them into monstrous fiends.

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Sheldon Moldoff for pencils.

Sarcophagus of Sandola! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Hy Fleishman (signed)

Inks:

Hy Fleishman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Robert Morgan; Queen Sandola; Ahmond

Synopsis:

Tourist Robert Morgan travels through Egypt and is lost in a sand storm. He finds refuge in a cave where the noble woman Sandola protects him from a snake and leads him back to the city. Sandola disappears all of a sudden, and Morgan learns that he must have met the ghost of an ancient queen, dead for two thousand years.

Indexer Notes

Narrated by masked host (Mister Mystery).