Digital Comic Museum - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds 005 c2c


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Issue: #5
Published: October 1957, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	What Became of the Man Who Lived for Vengeance?
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (5 pages)	Live for Reunion
Synopsis:	Hal returns to where his parents disappeared twenty years ago and can't decide whether to join them or not.
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (3 pages)	Stranger in the House
Synopsis:	A family is shocked by the sudden appearance of a soldier in the home, instituting new discipline, but it is really just the goings-on in a dollhouse.
Genre:	Fantasy

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Mirage
Synopsis:	A man breaks out of jail on the edge of a desert and vows to cross it. Unfortunately, while a guard fired at him, he must have hit the canteen he prepared as it is now empty. As he pushes himself to crest a dune, he spies an oasis with beautiful women. He rationalizes that it must be a mirage and pushes himself to continue following the compass he has crafted deeper into the desert. After he is gone, the beautiful women wonder why the stranger turned away.
Genre:	Drama

Text Story (2 pages)	Aucas
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (5 pages)	Stowaway
Synopsis:	A boy stows away on a rocketship and the crew are most displeased to discover him, until he fixes some damage outside the ship picked up on its space voyage, since he is the only one small enough to fit into the duct.
Genre:	Science Fiction

Comic Story (6 pages)	A Dreamer's World
Synopsis:	A test pilot sees a viking sailor and a young woman standing outside his cockpit. He exits his plane to speak with them. The viking tells him that he has entered a "dreamer's world," where people like him end up when they die. The woman protests that she's not dead, and the pilot realizes that she must be in trouble in the real world. The pilot grabs her by the hand and the two of them make a break for the jet cockpit. Once he lands, she is nowhere in sight, but he finds her passed out in a room of dangerous smoldering chemicals. She revives and recognizes him as the man from her vision.
Genre:	Fantasy

Comic Story (1 page)	Our Atomic Future
Synopsis:	Writeup of the benefits of nuclear energy.
Genre:	Non-fiction Math and Science

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