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Issue: Dark Mysteries #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1954
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Issues: #20 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMaster Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Master Comics 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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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Hy Fleishman ?
Inker(s): Hy Fleishman ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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In Content Item: FlagThe Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics #[nn] published January 2008
as Dark Mysteries #20 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Clutch of the Devil Fish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): A. C. Hollingsworth ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A sadistic seafaring band of brothers kills whales. Some for money, some just for sport. This arouses the anger of the "devil fish", a giant octopus. Changing form, the octopus comes aboard as the lovely maiden Myra - killing off the brothers one after the other.
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Pages: 7
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Flames of Hate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gerald Altman (signed)
Inker(s): Gerald Altman (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Pierre, an old executioner, hires a young assistant, Jean, to help him with his work. Which is to burn people at the stake. When Jean hits it off with Marianne, Pierre's lovely wife, Pierre seethes with jealousy and "accidentally" burns Jean on the pyre. Marianne is heartbroken. Jean returns from the grave, frightens Pierre to death and takes Marianne with him.
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Shot by a Corpse

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ellen Lynn
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: First-person-narrative of "a racketeer's moll": When the gang kidnaps a little boy, the woman goes soft and smuggles a confession to the police.
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The Living-Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John D'Agostino (signed)
Inker(s): John D'Agostino (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Ivor Blau, lost in the wintery woods of the Black Forest, comes to a lonely house. A lovely girl, Vania, takes him in. Something is strange. Soon Ivor learns that the house is populated with half-dead zombies (a result of a Nazi experiment) and he, Ivor (as the son of the evil Nazi doctor), has to pay with his blood.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics #[nn] published January 2008
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In Content Item: FlagThe Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! #[nn] published November 2010
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Mountain Madness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Doug Wildey ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Ben and Alan are friends and work as lawyers in the same firm. When Alan gets to be junior partner, Ben is furious and plans his murder. On a mountain trip he pushes Alan into the abyss. Returning to the scene of the crime months later, Ben is attacked by the undead Alan and flung down the mountain to his death.
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