Issue: #24
Published: May 1954, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: Ken Rice ? | Inks: Ken Rice ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
I Died Laughing |
| Synopsis: |
When aging comedian Jud Jarman is banned from television, he comes up with a revenge plot. With the help of the death-like "Mr. Creep", Jarman supposedly fakes his suicide and haunts the people who fired him afterwards. The punch line is: Jarman really died. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #47 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"A strange tale of the supernatural occurred in 1903 in a fishing village on the Florida Keyes..."
Paul Finlay is killed by his guide as he tries to recover his ancestor's treasure, but an ancient curse apparently rebounds on the guide. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Realm of Lost Faces |
| Synopsis: |
Soviet adviser Ivanovitch desecrates a magic Chinese mask and pays for it with the loss of his facial features. He gets shot by his fellow communists and has to look for his missing face in the afterworld. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #48 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"In the midst of a cruel reign that dominated the people of Castille, a province in Spain, a tale of the supernatural that defies explanation was born..."
A gypsy's severed hands take revenge and strangle the man responsible for cutting them off. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
She Shrieked with Horror |
| Synopsis: |
Investment company man Talbot Stewart makes a house call at a strange place. The owner imprisons him with intent of torture and murder. Mysterious Ghrislaine, wife to the terrible Mr. Eyre, helps him escape - only to have him all for herself. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Macabre Awakening |
| Synopsis: |
Pierre Gerard awakens in a strange place and tries to remember what happened. His whole life flashes by until he realizes that he is a vampire caught in a tomb. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
My Sinister Double |
| Synopsis: |
Hobby scientist Jan Luddig discovers the secret of life and creates a ghost-clone of himself. Able to walk through walls, the clone commits crimes and leads an existence of his own. Luddig takes his life and the clone has to perish also. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Chic Stone | Inks: Chic Stone ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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