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Issue: Mysterious Stories #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1955
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagPremier Magazines
Indicia Publisher: Premier Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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fantasy
The Witch Doctor
It's the Witch Doctor!
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Signature "GW" is hidden on yellow mask on bottom of page.
Nightmare!

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horror, occult
Dan McGraw; Carley; Winslow
The tick of the clock...
Forty years after the Civil War, former soldier Dan McGraw is visited by the ghosts of his army buddies. He killed them so that he could keep a gold treasure all for himself. The ghosts drive him to a police station where McGraw makes a full confession of his crimes.
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The Elder Gods

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Subject Matter
fantasy, occult
John Anderson; Felipe
There are of course two Mexicos!
American tourist John Anderson visits Mexico and has a vision of a goddess there.
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Smart Soldiers Never Die!

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Subject Matter
fantasy, occult, war
Alan Taylor; Lieutenant Parker (death); Sergeant Casey
Allan Taylor's first days in combat...
Rookie soldier in Korea caught behind enemy lines is pulled through by veteran. Returning to camp, he learns that the veteran must have been a ghost, because he died yesterday.
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Friends to the End!

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Subject Matter
fantasy, occult
Al Morgan; Dave Bradley
The flames leap - Across the room...
Al is rescued from a tenement fire by the ghost of his war buddy Dave. Al once saved Dave's life, and now the debt is paid.
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So You Want to Be a Witch?

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fantasy, humorous, occult
An old experienced witch reminisces in a monologue about her times.
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King Midas

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fantasy, humorous, occult
Grandma Gruesome's Deadtime Tale
Grandma Gruesome (host); King Midas
Salutations, truth seekers...
Story of King Midas, pepped up with 1950s lingo. Because he cannot eat anymore (everything he touches turns to gold), Midas turns himself into the Statue of Liberty and is shipped to New York.
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