Mystic #41

(November 1955)

The Test! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dick Ayers (signed as Dick Ayers)

Inks

Dick Ayers ?; Ernie Bache ?

Colors

?

Letters

Dick Ayers

Job Number

G-797

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

An experimental psychologist conducting tests on hamsters has a dream wherein they become so intelligent that they escape their cages and turn the tables on him subjecting him to electric shocks whenever he attempts to leave the house. When he awakes from the dream, he terminates his intelligence enhancing experiment and gives the hamsters away as pets.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #11
• in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #19
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #90
• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (March 1974)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #180 ([circa 1981 - 1982])

The Genius (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-976

They Pass By Night! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bob McCarthy ?

Inks

Bob McCarthy ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-778

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

This story attempts to build drama by leading the reader to believe that a bus and a car are going to collide during the night but the last panel reveals the bus was traveling on the planet Mercury and so there was no danger of collision between the two vehicles.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #11 ([circa 1962]), #139 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #231 ([circa 1985 - 1986])

Indexer Notes

McCarty credit per Atlas Tales. Wessler credit per bibliography published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 24, #10, October 2013.

I Can Hear You Think! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Paul S. Newman

Pencils

Vic Carrabotta (signed as Vic Carrabotta)

Inks

Vic Carrabotta (signed as Vic Carrabotta)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-632

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Dr. Wright; Johnny Downes; Professor Grant

Synopsis

After the first atomic bomb explodes children are born with the ability to read minds, which the government put to use as a tactical defense against the Communists.

Reprints

• in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #17
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #2 (1963)
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #21 (1964 ?)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #133 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (February 1974)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #161 ([circa 1977 - 1978])

The Man Who Took a Walk! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Paul S. Newman

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-786

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world.

Reprints

• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #21
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #2 (1963), #134 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #167 ([circa 1978 - 1979]) [black and white]

One Who Dared (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Lawrence (signed as ML)

Inks

Mort Lawrence (signed as ML)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-834

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

Mankind retreats from atomic horror to live underground for so many years that the past is forgotten and no one recalls why they had to leave the surface. One boy finds that he cannot be like the others and simply accept the situation so he takes the last remaining shaft up to the surface world. Opening the hatch sets off an alarm and the rest of the security detail follow him up to the surface where they discover a new paradise.

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #53 [Black and white.]
• in Die Gruft von Graf Dracula (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #21
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #2 (1963), #133 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (March 1974)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #161 ([circa 1977 - 1978])