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Issue: Mystic #30
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Publisher: FlagL. Miller & Son
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Indicia Publisher: L. Miller & Co. (Hackney) Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 9.375" x 7.25" (9-3/8" x 7-1/4")
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Early issues saddle-stitched, later issues squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Cover, Front
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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The Curse of Carnoc Castle

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (George Evans ?)
? (George Evans ?)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
What was the mystery of the inscription?!
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Cover inspired by page one of source story.
For the Best in Comics Entertainment!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Phantom; Marvelman; Young Marvelman; Mandrake; two unknown aliens
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Inside front cover advert for various L. Miller comics including Popeye, Phantom, Marvelman, Young Marvelman, Mandrake, Spellbound and Mystic
The Curse of Carnoc Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
George Evans
George Evans
Ed Hamilton ?
Subject Matter
horror
Doctor Death (host); Delena (newspaper reporter); Mario (newspaper reporter); Joseph (coachman); Duke of Allister (2 centuries dead); Duke of Allister (current day)
After two hundred years the Duke of Allister rises newly born from his casket at Carnoc Castle. Now immortal, he seeks to lead a second life. But the forces of witchcraft which granted him his gift return to haunt the Duke.
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FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was The Curse of Carnoc Castle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Stand-in for Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bernard Baily
Bernard Baily
Charlotte Jetter
Subject Matter
horror
Doctor Death (host); Karl Danner; Alec Norden; Helene Norden; Lew Tilden; Doctor Feder
Karl Danner steals the coat of a dying man and uses the ticket he finds in its pockets to escape aboard a ferry. Unfortunately he has chosen the ferry of the dead and is doomed to ride along.
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FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was Stand-in for Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Doctor MacCready's Little Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Schutzer
? (title illustration)
? (title illustration)
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Dr. MacCready
I am writing this message for you quickly, before I am stricken with another of my headaches, or before one of the guards suspects what I am doing.
In Dr. MacCready's sanatorium for the mentally ill the inmates are shrunken to keep them at bay. An investigating reporter gets involved and ends up in a bird cage.
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FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was Doctor MacCready's Little Men [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Coffin Maker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sheldon Moldoff
Sheldon Moldoff
?
Subject Matter
horror
Doctor Death (host); Carlotta Frawley; Hiram Frawley
Beautiful Carlotta marries undertaker Hiram for his money. Things get dangerous when she finds out that her husband made a pact with the devil in person.
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FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was The Coffin-Maker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Gun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bernard Baily
Bernard Baily ?
Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
crime
Johnny Thorpe (dies); Jim Ryan; Sheriff Saunders; Joe Finley (dies); Frankie Dane [Gunner] (dies); Bol Woodcock; Bonnie Trasker; Big Ed (dies); Lem (dies), Shim (dies)
The gun was a .38 caliber automatic, serial number 1,189,765!
Midwestern boy Frankie finds a .38 caliber automatic pistol and impresses Bonnie so much she takes him back to Kansas City with her to learn from Big Ed and his two sons. Frankie get impatient, kills all 3 of them, and goes on a crime spree with Bonnie. He earns the sobriquet "Gunner".
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FlagDown with Crime #3 published March 1952
was The Gun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Charlie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger Shop)
? (Iger Shop)
?
Subject Matter
horror
Winthrop Peters, Jr.; Joe Taft (uncle); Mary Taft (aunt); Miss Jones (piano teacher)
Winthrop was a very bright young man who had everything he wanted, including something special that his well-intending relatives had overlooked...he had a friend!
Winthrop Peters, Jr. relies on his unseen companion Charlie, but when Winthrop's uncle and aunt make plans for private school, Charlie has other ideas.
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FlagStrange #1 published March 1957
was Charlie [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Joe Taft is called Alexander Taft in a caption in panel 2.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
The king of the space-age
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Miscellaneous
1
House advert for Flash Gordon comics.

"Out now!"

"On sale at your newsagent 1'-"

On inside rear cover.
Famous 'Export Parcel'

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (enlarged pictures of stamps)
? (enlarged pictures of stamps)
? (blue used)
typeset
Subject Matter
Now available in Great Britain
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Miscellaneous
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Advertisement from Broadway Approvals.

On outside rear cover.

"129 Different Stamps"

"Send 1/- today. Ask for lot W27"

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