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.

Reprints:

• in Stark Terror (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #1 (December 1970)

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).