Argus ← Live listings
Cover of Mystery Tales #17
Photo: listing on shortboxed

CATALOG RECORD

Mystery Tales #17

Marvel · Series began 1952 · January 1954

Dates

Cover date
January 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Russ Heath, Syd Shores, Paul Reinman, Dave Berg, Tony DiPreta, Al Lusterinks: Russ Heath, Syd Shores, Norman Steinberg, Paul Reinman, Dave Berg, Tony DiPreta, Al Lustercolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • The Movie House Horror! · 5 pages

    A movie theater owner steals a 3-D projector from a man who warns him that it will reverse dimensions, but he doesn't listen.

  • Unexpected Guests · 2 pages
  • The Man Without Eyes! · 4 pages

    When an artist loses a competition to a blind Greek sculptor, the man resolves to learn his secret, so the sculptor introduces the artist to his wife...Medusa.

  • What Happened Up There? · 5 pages

    When climbers reach the peak of the world's tallest mountain, they find that there is already a village set up there selling souvenirs.

  • You Can't Twin · 4 pages

    When a criminal twin brother murders his honest twin by throwing him off a bridge because he is going to turn him in, he dies by drowning on dry land.

  • The Black Crows! · 5 pages

    A failed musician contemplating suicide makes a deal with the Devil for one fabulous year at the end of which he must surrender his life. The devil sends packs of crows to the wires outside the man's window which represent the musical notes to the symphony he writes down as the crows shift their positions. He performs the symphony and gains instant fame. At the end of the year, he tries to welsh on the deal, but the crows tear at him and he becomes transformed into a scarecrow out in the field.

Reprinted in

Mystic (1960), Creepy Worlds (1962), Spellbound (1960), Crypt of Horror (2005)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).