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Issue: Mister Mystery #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1951
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Issues: #1 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStanley Morse
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Media Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: MISTER MYSTERY, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sept., 1951. Published bi-monthly by Media Publications, Inc., at 1775 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint interior, glossy covers
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Hand

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man is killed by the skeletal hand of his unborn/undeveloped twin that was grafted onto his ankle before birth.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #11 published June 2014
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Pages: 5
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Death a la Carte

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man lets his mentally handicapped cousin (who's left under his care) starve to death so he can claim his inheritance. The problem is, the cousin's ghost comes back for revenge.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #13 published October 2014
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Kurtzman imitation
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The Bloody Jinx

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Herman Haas is the last of his family line from Germany. His family was infamous for creating the "jinx of the blue candle", which is a blue wax candle that, when breathed upon by the victim, will cause the victim to die after the flame flickers out. Herman had destroyed the candle-making book and wants to never continue this family practice. When Satan (Lucifer H. Diablo) himself visits Herman, he forces him to make a blue candle from memory. Herman tries to escape but is killed. However, Satan had breathed on the candle and is destroyed once the flame flickers out.
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Television Ghost..

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Mister Mystery (host); Henry Meeks (death); Grace Meeks (villain, death)
Synopsis: Henry Meeks is being continually harrassed by his wife to the point of planning her murder. However, she is having similar thoughts about doing him in as well and does! Unfortunately for her, his death is not the end; it's the beginning of a new form of disgust with her former husband.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Kurtzman imitation.

Some credited Charles "Colly" Stern with the pencils and inks; Stern was a former roommate of Harvey Kurtzman, suggesting a reason why this work resembles Kurtzman.

This story directly references Kurtzman's story, "The Mysterious Ray From Another Planet," which is found in Weird Fantasy #4. The protagonists from "Television Ghost" are taken directly from the EC story, though not directly swiped. Instead, this is a completely new story based on Kurtzman's visuals, and is such a complete re-creation of Kurtzman's style that one of Kurtzman's former students, cartoonist Batton Lash, believes that Kurtzman actually drew this story, and, if that is true, then this could be a "lost" Kurtzman story. This information from article by Michael Gilbert in Alter Ego #119 (August 2013).
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The Tree of Vengeance

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Genres: horror
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