Issue: #1
Published: September 1951, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Harry Kantor (credited)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior, Glossy Covers Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: MISTER MYSTERY, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept., 1951. Published bi-monthly by Media Publications, Inc., at 1775 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.
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| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Hand |
| Synopsis: |
A man is killed by the skeletal hand of his unborn/undeveloped twin that was grafted onto his ankle before birth. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Death a la Carte |
| Synopsis: |
A man lets his mentally handicapped cousin (who's left under his care) starve to death so he can claim his inheritance. The problem is, the cousin's ghost comes back for revenge. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Bloody Jinx |
| Synopsis: |
Herman Haas is the last of his family line from Germany. His family was infamous for creating the "jinx of the blue candle", which is a blue wax candle that, when breathed upon by the victim, will cause the victim to die after the flame flickers out. Herman had destroyed the candle-making book and wants to never continue this family practice. When Satan (Lucifer H. Diablo) himself visits Herman, he forces him to make a blue candle from memory. Herman tries to escape but is killed. However, Satan had breathed on the candle and is destroyed once the flame flickers out. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Television Ghost.. |
| Synopsis: |
Henry Meeks is being continually harrassed by his wife to the point of planning her murder. However, she is having similar thoughts about doing him in as well and does! Unfortunately for her, his death is not the end; it's the beginning of a new form of disgust with her former husband. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Mister Mystery (host) Henry Meeks (death) Grace Meeks (villain, Death) |
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