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Issue: Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1
Publication Date: June 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Volume: none
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781595822192
UPC/EAN: 978159582219254995
Price: $49.95 USD
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Content Items: 55 (38 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Rachel Edidin (Assistant Editor Collected Edition); ? (original editor)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Ring of Fear

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Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 published April 1963
was Ring of Fear [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
 
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Title pages and masthead

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

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Introduction by Karloff's daughter.
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Photographs of Karloff in his various roles

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Boris Karloff Thriller #1 cover

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Gleam of Evil

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Boris Karloff (host)
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The Crystal Ball

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Boris Karloff (host)
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was The Crystal Ball [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Man Who Vanished

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The Green Monkey

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Boris Karloff (host)
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #1 published October 1962
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A Haunted Honeymoon

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Boris Karloff (host)
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Vengeance of the Frigorifique

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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #1 published October 1962
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Past and Present Danger

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Boris Karloff (host)
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The Hand in the Wall

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Boris Karloff (host)
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Nightmare Scoop

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Into the Blue

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The Plague of Gornau

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Boris Karloff (host)
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #1 published October 1962
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The Dream

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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #1 published October 1962
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The Tracks

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Boris Karloff Thriller #1 back cover

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Boris Karloff (photograph)
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #1 published October 1962
was Boris Karloff Thriller Pin-Up No. 1 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Boris Karloff Thriller #2 cover

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Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
was The Smiling Cavalier [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Blind Man's Bluff

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Boris Karloff (host); Jim Blake (death); Buzz Murphy (death); Judy Davis
During a race, Buzz Murphy, driving very recklessly because Jim is in the lead, causes Jim to crash. Afterwards, Buzz asks Jim's fiancée out for a drink while he is in the hospital. The next day while Buzz is driving on the racetrack Jim suddenly shows up behind him and causes him to die in a crash. The people at the wreckage comment that Jim had died in the hospital just before the crash.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
was Blind Man's Bluff [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Dreamer

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Boris Karloff (host); Dr. E. Korvo; Mark Pearson (death); Diane; Dr. A. B. Haven
Mark Pearson shows up at Dr. Korvo's (a psychiatrist) office after hours begging him to help him. He has a recurring dream about being on a ship when it sinks. Dr. Korvo agrees to try to help him and hypnotizes him because he has amnesia.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
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The Smiling Cavalier

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Boris Karloff (host); Laurie Callan; Don Juan
Laurie Callan loves to visit the museum and try to sketch the 17th century masterpiece "The Smiling Cavalier" but she never seems to be able to get it right. One night when she accidentally remains in the museum after it closes the paintings come to life. The "Smiling Cavalier" (Don Juan) and the other two "Smiling Cavalier" paintings come out and chase Laurie until she can escape. The night guard that lets her out looks just like the Don Juan "Smiling Cavalier".
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
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Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 22, no. 11 (Nov 2011)
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The Man from Nowhere

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mystery, occult
Kaspar Houser (death); Earl Stanhope
The story of the mystery of Kaspar Houser. Nothing is known of his childhood, his strange sense of smell, his strange eyesight and the truth of various attacks on him that ended with his death.
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The Island

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Boris Karloff (host); Cecil Matthews (death); Fred; Mr. Johnson; Charlie
Cecil Matthews is a bank employee who is sick of his job. He steals $30,000 and flies to Hawaii where he plans to charter a plane to Papinee, an island he found in an old "Islands of Paradise" book. The bank notices the theft before he can get to Papinee so he hijacks a mail plane to fly him there. Once there he kills the pilot and settles in at the deserted village. What Cecil doesn't know is that the reason the village is deserted is that the Island of Papinee was chosen by the Government to use in a missile test. The next day he is destroyed when the bomb is detonated on the island.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
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The Phantom Plane

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The story of the "Lady Be Good", a Liberator bomber from World War II. The "Lady Be Good" disappeared from Soluch in North Africa in May 1943 and wasn't seen again until May 1959 when it was found in the Sahara Desert. The tracks of its men intersected with the tracks of two other forces: Italian soldiers and British soldiers. The trail was eventually lost and it was never known how the plane got to the Sahara Desert or what happened to its crew.
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The Devil's Armchair

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Martha Harris (death); Mr. Duval; Stanley Harris; Lucy Rambeau (death); Jean Maraque
Martha Harris buys an antique chair for her husband's birthday. He loves the chair but when she or her friend try to sit in it they are jabbed. She tries to take the chair back but is told that it is cursed and that she must keep it forever. It was used by a man named Jean Maraque to kill a young lady who spurned him. Martha does not believe the story and is killed when she tries to throw the chair out.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
was The Devil's Armchair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Find the Traitor

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General Luis Amendez (death); Perez; Colonel Menderes
General Luis Amendez is driven through a quiet city to his presidential palace. He rules with an iron fist where people are afraid to even speak around him. When he finds a letter saying that he must die and that the people will be free he tells the police to find the individuals behind the letters and to kill them, but if the police can't find them, they will be killed themselves. The police find that the one writing the letters is General Amendez himself (he suffers from schizophrenia). They kill the General to keep from being killed themselves.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
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The Black Pit

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Boris Karloff (host); Mort Fallon; Mr. Stoker; Jamie Walsh; Dan Walsh; Matt Walsh; Jamie's father
Mort Fallon wants to write an article on the 10th anniversary of a mine collapse. Jamie Walsh agrees to take Mort on a tour of the mine and only agrees to take him to the site of the collapse when Mort offers him $100. While on their way there they hear "tommyknockers" (the souls of miners who lost their lives there) warning them to leave.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
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A Very Strange Burial

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Boris Karloff (host); Sydney Clybourne (death); Malcolm Billings (death); Alf; Caleb Mason; Mosesh; Sekoo (death)
Sydney Clybourne walks in front of a car and is killed. When the police investigate the accident they find a book on him with a story from Sydney's time in Tanganyika. Sydney was on a safari there with Malcolm Billings when they heard a story about a strange ritual that a local tribe goes through whenever their chief dies.
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The Amazing Peter Hurkos

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Peter Hurkos
Peter Hurkos, the man with the x-ray brain, helps the Dutch authorities in the city of Nijmegen identify the arsonist terrorizing the area.
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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
was The Amazing Peter Hurkos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Inside back cover, black and white. Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 22, no. 11 (Nov 2011)
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Boris Karloff Thriller #2 back cover

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FlagBoris Karloff Thriller #2 published January 1963
was Thriller Pin-Up No. 2 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 cover

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Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 published April 1963
was Ring of Fear [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
 
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The Sea, Number 11: Plants of the Coral Reef

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 published April 1963
was The Sea, Number 11: Plants of the Coral Reef [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Ring of Fear

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Boris Karloff (host); John Ruskin (death); Milo Mead (death); Mary Ruskin; Jack Ruskin; Tim Marker (death); Felix Morro (death); Dan Duff (death)
A series of men, beginning with John Ruskin and then extending to each person who has in their possession a famous Aztec Ring, die. John Ruskin's daughter is convinced that their deaths were caused by the ring, and she almost dies before she throws the ring away. It turns out that the ring they all possessed was a fake.
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 published April 1963
was Ring of Fear [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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#3 Cover story. 'WCL' is an indeterminate reference to 'Gold Key/Dell West Coast Letterer.'
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Jonah

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A True Tale of Mystery
James Bartley
The story of James Bartley, a whaler who is swallowed alive by a whale and lives. He ends up almost blind, his hair gone and his skin turned white. He quits whaling and becomes a cobbler.
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Target: Earth

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An article about asteroids and their effects (or potential effects) upon the earth.
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The Secret of Oak Island

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A True Tale of Mystery
The story of the unsuccessful search for buried treasure on Oak Island.
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was The Secret of Oak Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Night Caller

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Zilma; Pablo; Jim Brechers; Vince Harper
After the witch doctor stirs up evil spirits Zilma is attacked by a monster that no one gets a good look at. Pablo is in love with Zilma and wants to protect her. The witch doctor doesn’t like Pablo, and tells her tribe that she has seen him bring illness to them in her dreams. Pablo and Zilma run away, but the witch doctor uses voodoo to make Zilma sick. Pablo throws a rock and asks for it to find the witch doctor and kill her. The witch doctor dies when she falls off of a cliff. No one knows if the stone knocked her off or if the monster did. Pablo becomes the new witch doctor of the tribe.
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The Man Who Lived Forever

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A True Tale of Mystery
Count of Saint-Germain
The story of the Count of Saint-Germain, who is rumored to have lived over 2000 years.
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was The Man Who Lived Forever [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Sea, Number 12: Waves

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was The Sea, Number 12: Waves [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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#3 inside back cover.
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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 back cover

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #3 published April 1963
was Boris Karloff Pin-Up No. 3 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 cover

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Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Something from the Past [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Something from the Past
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Archaeology, Number 5: The Tomb of Seti I

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Archaeology, Number 5: The Tomb of Seti I [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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#4 inside front cover.
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Something from the Past

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Boris Karloff (host)
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Something from the Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Menace of the Missing Mummy

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Boris Karloff (host)
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was The Menace of the Missing Mummy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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New art identification by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).
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The Incredible Thinking Machines

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was The Incredible Thinking Machines [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Lo! The Mighty Hunter

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Lo! The Mighty Hunter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Burn, Witch, Burn

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horror, occult
Boris Karloff (host)
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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Burn, Witch, Burn [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Archaeology, Number 4: The Tomb of King Tut

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Archaeology, Number 4: The Tomb of King Tut [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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#4 inside back cover.
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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 back cover

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FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #4 published July 1963
was Boris Karloff Pin-Up No. 4 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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#4 back cover. Reprint of the front cover without photograph, logo or caption.
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About Boris Karloff

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About the Creators

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[untitled]

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