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Issue: Mystic #55
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Issues: #55 of 66 Issues
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Publisher: FlagL. Miller & Son
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Indicia Publisher: L. Miller & Co. (Hackney) Ltd.
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Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 15 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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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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FlagThe Avengers #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1964 was Captain America Lives Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Genres: superhero
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First Line: For the Best Comics and the largest selection ask for Miller Comics
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Promotional text copy for L. Miller titles.
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Famous Atomatic Senior Water Pistol

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First Line: Send Away for it Today!
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Advertisement for a L. Miller & Co. (Hackney) Ltd. water pistol for the price of a 3/6d Postal Order.
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Captain America Joins... The Avengers!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Rick Jones; Teen Brigade; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Atlanteans; a D'Bari; Bucky Barnes (cameo flashback); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback)
First Line: Step forward, Captain America!
Synopsis: Namor attacks a group of eskimos and throws their idol into the sea. When the ice melts, the figure trapped within turns out to be Captain America, in suspended animation since the end of World War II. The Avengers rescue Cap and return to New York. An alien figure turns our heroes to stone. When Cap and Rick Jones track him down, the alien agrees to restore the Avengers if they agree to help him recover his broken space ship in return. When doing so, the Avengers are attacked by Namor and his people. The restored spaceship ultimately drives off Namor and his men.
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The Effigy

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Genres: crime, fantasy
Synopsis: A criminal takes an effigy from a voodoo cult so that they cannot use it to compel him to surrender himself to the police.
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The Fish Men!

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Synopsis: Fish men plot to take over the surface, but when they actually venture up there, they find the limitless space psychologically discomforting and the sun burns their skin. They return to the home beneath the waves that they are familiar with.
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Disclose Notes: Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).
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They Wait in the Caves!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man finds an island abundant with pearls and gives the location to his friend. When the friend arrives, the natives destroy his boat to keep him from revealing the island's location to anyone else.
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Morton's Machine!

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Genres: science fiction
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The Secret of the Iron Needle!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Space explorers realize, when the planet they are examining runs down, the giant needle they've found is not a natural phenomenon but the winding key of a giant toy.
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The Changing Man!

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man who works as a security guard is envying the easy jobs he imagines his fellow bus passengers to have when the bus is struck by lightning and he finds himself becoming one with the other men in succession. It turns out two of them have dangerous construction jobs and the third, Matt Grimm, is a test pilot whose plane catches fire and he has to bail out. He tells his story to his wife who thinks it's a pack of lies, when suddenly he transforms into the only other man he hasn't been, the bus driver.
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Out of the Fog!

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man goes back in time to Arthur's court and attempts to make himself king, but he lacks the knowledge of metallurgy and chemistry to build 20th century weapons and gadgets so he becomes Arthur's sorcerer Merlin.
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I Entered the Forbidden Lagoon!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man cheats his partner out of the pearls of a lagoon and the natives curse him until he gives the money back and the waters of the lagoon forgive him.
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Fulfillment

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Genres: drama, science fiction
Feature(s): Incredible Science Fiction
Character(s): unnamed man and wife explorers; patrol ship repairman
Synopsis: A man and woman tourist blast off into space, but their robot navigator takes them far off course and they land on a planet they call Millus III. Unknown to them, the natives consider their rocket ship a god, which they worship until they are finally rescued and blast off into space again. The natives witness this and lament the loss of their god they call Ra --- the land where they live and worship called Egypt!
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The City That Sank!

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Synopsis: A pilot stumbles across a submersible city that raises above and lowers below the waves.
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Don't miss a single issue of... Spellbound

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Promotional advertisement for L. Miller & Co. (Hackney) Ltd's Spellbound series.

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