Mysterious Adventures (1951) comic books 1951

cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Walter Johnson and others. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. Psychic investigator Channing Wells learns Dayla is being stalked by a vampire, and he suspects her fiance knows more than he's telling. A professor ignores all warnings, and thaws out the strange lizard-like monster his associate Janet found frozen in the Arctic tundra. An artist is compelled to paint a face he's never seen, and then things get weirder when he reads his own obituary in the newspaper. Soldier of the Dead; A Portrait of Death; Revenge of the Voodoo Dead; The Horrible Fangs of Professor Prome!; Curse of the DMedici. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Ed Goldfarb. "Curse of the Witch"; John Cahill falls in love with Abigail Sheffield, cursed to walk the Earth sowing fire, death, and ash as a falsely-accused witch, until she finds true love. "The Cabinet of the Living Death"; Explorer Jim Bixon and newspaper reporter Marcy Merry investigate Ju-Ju dolls on a trip to South America; The fiendish Dr. Sharon knows how to produce them and shrinks Bixon and Merry to miniature size. "Mark of the Tomb"; Renowned Dr. Marsak is a vampire at night, as his colleagues Dr. Drexel and nurse Corbin find out. "A Midnight Ride with Death" text story. "The Unholy Quest," art by Ed Goldfarb; Alan Saxton inherits the house of his uncle Mat who dabbled in black magic; The undead sorcerer Zoltan tries to get his hands on the corpse of Mat - to walk the earth again. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Ed Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer. "Curse of the Salem Queen!"; Pirate Black Luke, scourge of the Atlantic, maroons a company of women and children on a flimsy raft; The young woman Lucille goes overboard and dies, but her ghost haunts Black Luke and his crew. "Return from the Dead!"; The coalminers Tom and Matty fight over the same woman, Ruth; Tom tries to slay Matty and leaves him to perish in an abandoned mine shaft; Some time later, however, Tom is trapped in a cave-in and comes across the mortal remains of his rival Matty. "Anger of the Devil," pencils by Ed Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer; When geologist McIntyre watches a forbidden native ritual, he is marked for death; Strange things begin to happen in the household, as native woman Nagana presents McIntyre's daughter Betsy with a voodoo doll. "Ghost of the Mist" text story by Ellen Lynn. "The Manikins of Death!", art by Alvin C. Hollingsworth; The secret of his lifelike puppets is a simple one: Conrad Lebaron uses real bodies of beautiful women to create his famed manikins; But when he kills singer Regina Walters, he is being haunted by her ghostly apparition. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

"If the Coffin Fits..Get In!"; Two brothers fall in love with a mysterious woman they meet at a funeral; She leads them to a curio shop where they buy miniature coffins; Strangely, though, the wooden boxes begin to grow. "The Horror of Van Mort!", art by A. C. Hollingsworth; John Harvin rents a haunted house, waiting for the ghost of Van Mort to appear; When three friends from the city come visit him and scare him with a practical joke, the ghost rises. "Terror of the Ghostly Stallion" text story. "Ghost of the Un-Dead," art by Bill Fraccio; American marine lieutenant Allen kills a Muslim chieftain in Tripoli in 1815; The dying man puts a curse on all of his descendants; Every Allen visiting Tripoli ever after is being drained of his blood by the vampiristic ghost of the chieftain. "Terror of the Ancient Skeleton"; Dr. Luther digs up a skeleton from an Indian burial hill. The bones have mystical powers; whoever dislocates them, suffers terrible consequences. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Bondage cover by Bill Fraccio. "Ghouls Feast at Midnight," art by A. C. Hollingsworth; A father and his son are under suspicion to be grave-robbing ghouls. "The Pool of Eternity," art by Lou Cameron; Adventurer David Murstone crashes in the jungle and is severely injured; Jivaro goddess Konocry saves his life by letting him drink from the "Pool of Eternity" and thus giving him immortality; The Jivaro tribe disagrees with her action and tortures the couple. "Terror of the Sleeping Monster!", art by Bill Fraccio; Sculptor Lawrence Matthews is endowed with a magic chisel; In his dreams a strange man called Maroff commands him to sculpt his image; Maroff is a vampire who comes alive again to wreak vengeance on the townspeople. "Strange Grotto of Death" text story by Ellen Lynn. "Horror of the Walking Dead," art by John D'Agostino; The young woman Kathy pleads with her dead mother to help her against the cruel woman her father married recently; Rosamund, the new stepmother is found dead—mysteriously shot through the head. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.