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Issue: Mystic #30
Publication Date: January 1963
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Issues: #30 of 66 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagL. Miller & Son
Brand:
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
Indicia Frequency:
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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The Curse of Carnoc Castle

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (George Evans ?)
Inker(s): ? (George Evans ?)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: What was the mystery of the inscription?!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover inspired by page one of source story.
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For the Best in Comics Entertainment!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Popeye; Olive Oyl; Phantom; Marvelman; Young Marvelman; Mandrake; two unknown aliens
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover advert for various L. Miller comics including Popeye, Phantom, Marvelman, Young Marvelman, Mandrake, Spellbound and Mystic
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The Curse of Carnoc Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans
Inker(s): George Evans
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Doctor Death (host); Delena (newspaper reporter); Mario (newspaper reporter); Joseph (coachman); Duke of Allister (2 centuries dead); Duke of Allister (current day)
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was The Curse of Carnoc Castle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Stand-in for Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Letterer(s): Charlotte Jetter
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Doctor Death (host); Karl Danner; Alec Norden; Helene Norden; Lew Tilden; Doctor Feder
Synopsis: 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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From Content Item: FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was Stand-in for Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Doctor MacCready's Little Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Schutzer
Penciller(s): ? (title illustration)
Inker(s): ? (title illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. MacCready
First Line: 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.
Synopsis: 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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From Content Item: FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was Doctor MacCready's Little Men [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Coffin Maker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Doctor Death (host); Carlotta Frawley; Hiram Frawley
Synopsis: 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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From Content Item: FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #1 published October 1951
was The Coffin-Maker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Gun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily ?
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): 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)
First Line: The gun was a .38 caliber automatic, serial number 1,189,765!
Synopsis: 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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From Content Item: FlagDown with Crime #3 published March 1952
was The Gun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Charlie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Iger Shop)
Inker(s): ? (Iger Shop)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Winthrop Peters, Jr.; Joe Taft (uncle); Mary Taft (aunt); Miss Jones (piano teacher)
First Line: 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!
Synopsis: 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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From Content Item: FlagStrange #1 published March 1957
was Charlie [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Joe Taft is called Alexander Taft in a caption in panel 2.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Flash Gordon
Character(s): Flash Gordon
First Line: The king of the space-age
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House advert for Flash Gordon comics.

"Out now!"

"On sale at your newsagent 1'-"

On inside rear cover.
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Famous 'Export Parcel'

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (enlarged pictures of stamps)
Inker(s): ? (enlarged pictures of stamps)
Colorist(s): ? (blue used)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Now available in Great Britain
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement from Broadway Approvals.

On outside rear cover.

"129 Different Stamps"

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

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