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Issue: Dark Mysteries #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1951
 
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Publisher: FlagMaster Comics
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Master Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Harry Harrison ?
Harry Harrison ?
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Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
The Dread Book of Betarin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Edward Goldfarb (signed)
Bob Baer (signed)
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror
Eugene Gordon dabbles with black magic and tries spells out of a "grimore", the black book of Betarin. After summoning some elemental creatures and dead people, Gordon encounters Betarin himself.
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Ghosts From Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Vince Napoli
Vince Napoli
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typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
Tiny dead ghostlike Martian creatures are raining down on earth and cause chaos and destruction. Only scientist and "authority on the occult" Don Blant may help by contacting the ghost of his dead brother Allen. The latter tells him that the Martians shy away from human blood.
Reprinting
FlagHaunted Horror #9 published January 2014
as Ghosts from Mars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
The Occult Notebook of Dark Mysteries

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror, non-fiction
Methods of divination, superstitions about were-animals, voodoo dolls and the evil eye.
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2
The Unwilling Witch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bill Molno ?
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?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror
Bob and Jane are haunted by an old witch who was an ancestor of Jane's. Under the witch's bidding Jane turns into a were-cat and tries to kill her fiancé. But Bob gets help from a New Orleans "conjur woman".
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Miscellaneous
7
Bargain With a... Worm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Pierce Rice ?
Harry Harrison ?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror
Jim Thomas enters into a pact with a strange entity. Looking like a sack, the being offers Jim help in financial matters. In exchange the being can read Jim's thoughts. They start hassling over money and manners. Underestimating the thing's powers, Jim gets the short end of the stick.
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FlagThe Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! #[nn] published November 2010
as Bargain with a... Worm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7

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