Misty
#22nd April 1978 [12]
(22nd April 1978)
- Price
- 8p [0-0-8 GBP]; 0.30 AUD; 0.30 NZD; 0.30 ZAR; 1.00 MYR
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- every Monday
- On-sale Date
- 1978-04-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IPC Magazines Ltd.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Misty (Rebellion, 2016 series) #[nn] (September 2016) -
in Vanessa (Bastei Verlag, 1982 series) #12, #27, #108
-
The Purple Emperor
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Keywords
- butterfly collecting
Indexer Notes
First page of story that continues on page 12.
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
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[no title indexed]
Misty / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The swift and silent clouds will soon obscure the moon and night will fall like a dark shroud.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
Inside front cover
[no title indexed]
The Cult of the Cat / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Convinced she was slowly changing into a cat Nicola Scott feared the strabge girl sent from Egypt to enrol her into the cult of the cat worshipers of Bast.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Julia Round at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
[no title indexed]
Paint It Black / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's Mr. Thursby's car! He's outside our house!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Julia Round at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
Miranda
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
The Purple Emperor
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Keywords
- butterfly collecting
Indexer Notes
Story begins on the cover (not counted here) and concludes on the back cover (which is counted here).
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
[no title indexed]
Write to Misty / letters page / 1.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've read all your comics and I think it's the best comic out.
[no title indexed]
Miss T / comic story / 0.33 page
- Script
- Joe Collins (signed as JC)
- Pencils
- Joe Collins (signed as JC)
- Inks
- Joe Collins (signed as JC)
- Letters
- Joe Collins (signed as JC)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My poison ivy plant needs watered
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Miss T; Purrdi
- Keywords
- rain dances; snow
[no title indexed]
Day of the Dragon / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My cousin Dave thinks I'm just imagining everything...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
[no title indexed]
These Misty Isles / text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep in Hampshire, there is the loneliness and quiet that phantoms seem to need.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
[no title indexed]
The Sentinels / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, thank goodness -- he's coming round.
- Genre
- science fiction; horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Julia Round at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
[no title indexed]
Moonchild / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The moon is shining so strongly...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Julia Round at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
Art credits from David Roach at "Misty: Stories, Creators, Credits." Julia Round. https://www.juliaround.com/misty. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
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0.
The Purple Emperor
-
1.
["The swift and silent clouds will soon obscure the moon and night will fall like a dark shroud."]
Misty -
2.
["Convinced she was slowly changing into a cat Nicola Scott feared the strabge girl sent from Egypt to enrol her into the cult of the cat worshipers of Bast."]
The Cult of the Cat -
3.
["It's Mr. Thursby's car! He's outside our house!"]
Paint It Black -
4.
Miranda
-
5.
The Purple Emperor
-
6.
["I've read all your comics and I think it's the best comic out."]
Write to Misty -
7.
["My poison ivy plant needs watered"]
Miss T -
8.
["My cousin Dave thinks I'm just imagining everything..."]
Day of the Dragon -
9.
["Deep in Hampshire, there is the loneliness and quiet that phantoms seem to need."]
These Misty Isles -
10.
["Oh, thank goodness -- he's coming round."]
The Sentinels -
11.
["The moon is shining so strongly..."]
Moonchild
- Peter Croome
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
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