Mystic #61

(August 1957)

Someday It Will Open (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Richard Doxsee (signed as Richard Doxsee)

Inks

Richard Doxsee (signed as Richard Doxsee)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-155

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

An anthropologist steals a "thought pod" from a native tribe and uses it to recreate himself at the age of twenty-one.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #3 (1960)
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #54 (1965)

The Thirteenth Floor (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Gene Fawcette ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-159

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A hotel employee is the only one who perceives a ghost floor, number 13 that burned sixty years ago and was not rebuilt. When he resolves to steal the ghost's jewels, he plummets to his doom when the fire breaks out again and snaps the elevator cable.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #3 (1960)
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #54 (1965)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from atlastales.com

Mister Backwards! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Frank Bolle (signed as F W B)

Inks

Frank Bolle (signed as F W B)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-130

Synopsis

A man buys an hourglass that makes time flow backwards when he tips it upside down, but when he tries to destroy it, he becomes trapped inside.

Reprints

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

Too Dangerous to Live (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Carl Burgos ?

Inks

Carl Burgos ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-172

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist behind the iron curtain creates an air purifier to counteract the poison of his first invention.

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Burgos credit per Atlas Tales.

Travelling Tom (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Tartaglione (illustration)

Inks

John Tartaglione (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

H-203

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton

Synopsis

A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.

Reprints

• from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955) [as "Travelling Tom"]
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #3 (1960)
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #53 (1965)

The Strange Sea! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Alfonso Greene (signed as Alfonso Greene)

Inks

Alfonso Greene (signed as Alfonso Greene)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-125

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

When a sailor becomes lost at sea, he is saved by the ghost of his great grandfather, who was the captain of his own vessel.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #3 (1960)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #51 (1965)
• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #34 (2017)

The Face in the Mirror! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

M-169

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A violent criminal is under the impression that his face is beginning to look like an animal after every time he hits a robbery victim. When he looks into a mirror, he panics and runs into the street where he is struck, not realizing it is a gimmick mirror.

Reprints

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