Comment made at: Mysterious_Traveler_001 [One Shot]_JVJ-GeoThe following is in addition to JVJ's info, included as the last page in the scan.
I've included a couple of links to GCD's info pages in case there's interest.
Actual Title: Mysterious Traveler Comics
GCD Link to Comic Data:
https://www.comics.org/series/14190/Price per copy: $0.10
Issue Number: Vol. 1, No. 1
Stated Publ Date: November 1948
Publisher: Trans-World Publications
GCD Publisher Link:
https://www.comics.org/publisher/2544/Office of Publication: 1 Appleton St.
Holyoke, Mass
Editorial Office: 1104 Land Title Building
Philadelphia, Penn
Declared Frequency: Quarterly
Copyright Date: Copyright 1948 by Trans-World Publications
GCD Per-Issue Details:
Publication Date: November 1948
Number of
Issues Published: 1
Color: full color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: stapled
Publishing Format: intended as on-going series
Indexer Notes: One-shot from Mutual Broadcasting Network radio show.
Contains an adaption of Poe's 'Tell-Tale Heart'.
Five Miles Down (Cover)
Pencils: Bob Powell (signed)
Inks: Bob Powell (signed)
Colors
Genre: Crime
Characters: Mysterious Traveler
The Grand Vizier's Reward
2 pages (p1, IFC; p2, IBC
Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: ?
Genre: non-fiction; historical
Characters: Sissa Ben Dahir; King of India
Synopsis: The King of India rewards Sissa Ben Dahir, the inventor
of chess, with grains of wheat on a chessboard.
Reprints: US in Terry and the Pirates (Charlton, 1955 series)
#28 (October 1955)
CA in Terry & the Pirates (Avalon Communications, 1998 ? series)
#2 (1998)
Five Miles Down (cover story)
12 pages
Script: Robert A Arthur and David Kogan
(for the original radio story)
Adaptation: ?
Pencils: Bob Powell (signed)
Inks: Bob Powell (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: ?
Genre: Science fiction
Characters: Mysterious Traveler
Indexer Notes:
Per the fanzine Fantasy Times (James V. Taurasi and Raymond Van Houten, 1941 series) #67 (July 1948), as reported by Art Lortie (10 September 2015) on the GCD-Chat discussion list, story is based on the radio episode "Five Miles Down." The show was broadcast twice (9 February 1947 and 4 July 1950) on the Mutual Broadcasting System and no known copies of the original broadcast episode appear to exist.
The Tell Tale Heart ("Famous Tales of Terror")
7 pages
Script: Edgar Allan Poe (original)
Adaptation: ?
Pencils: Alan Mandel?
Inks: Alan Mandel?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?
Genre: Horror-suspense
Reprints: US from Yellowjacket Comics (Charlton, 1944 series)
#6 (December 1945)
Indexer Notes
All information for this sequence from John Haufe, April 2008. Updated with possible artist ID August 2009.
The Mystery of the Five Fingers
2 pages
Script: ?
Letters: typeset
Genre: Crime
Characters: Mysterious Traveler
Raw Deal
8 pages
Script: Leopold Atlas and John C Higgins
(Original movie script)
Adaptation: ?
Pencils: Bob Powell (signed)
Inks: Bob Powell (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: ?
Genre: Crime
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the then "soon to be showing at your favorite theatre..." Eagle-Lion studio production by the same name. Staring Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Burr, Marsha Hunt, Claire Trevor, John Ireland and Chile Williams.
See
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040723/ for more information about the movie.
Take a Trip to India
3 pages
Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?
Genre: non-fiction
Characters: Mysterious Traveler
"Beauty Trix Wallet", Advertisement, 1 page
