Mystery Tales #52

(April 1957)

Mystery of the Silent Fog! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Bernard Baily ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-702

Synopsis

When a typical American small town finds itself being transported through space the mayor hits upon the idea of ordering all the townspeople to dress outlandishly and do crazy things in the street so that they won't be typical and the aliens will lose interest in studying them. It works.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #50 (1964)

The Fish Men! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marvin Stein

Inks

Marvin Stein

Colors

?

Letters

?

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

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #55
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960)

Indexer Notes

Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).

The Broken Statue (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell (illustration)

Inks

Bob Powell (illustration)

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-718

Reprints

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #147 (June 1956) [as "The Broken Statue"]
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960), #52 (1965)

The Betrayer (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Dick Ayers

Job Number

L-589

Synopsis

A soldier who had amnesia in the war feels driven to find out the name of the one who betrayed his squad to the Germans so he pulls a gun on the mayor of the town the ambush occurred in to make him talk. The mayor begs him to let the past rest, but the man insists. The mayor tells him that his amnesia has prevented him from recalling that he is the betrayer.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #48 (1964)

The Too-Perfect Crime! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Morisi (signed)

Inks

Pete Morisi (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Pete Morisi ?

Job Number

L-576

Synopsis

A car thief invents a camera that allows him to shrink cars. The police become suspicious of him when multiple cars that he has photographed are reported as stolen and pay him a visit. He turns the camera on himself and after he has shrunk down, realizes that he has no way to activate the camera to restore himself to normal size.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #52 (1965)

The City That Died! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Ed Winiarski

Inks

Ed Winiarski

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-646

Synopsis

A man stumbles over a 'light image' of an Aztec city that died hundreds of years ago. The image disappears, and the man misplaces his treasure.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960), #52 (1965)

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

Midnight on the Moor! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Drucker

Inks

Mort Drucker

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-660

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #52 (1965)

Indexer Notes

A "Hound of the Baskervilles"-type story.