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Mysterious Adventures #4

Master / Story / Mens · Series began 1951 · October 1951

Dates

Cover date
October 1951
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Alvin Hollingsworth, Bill Fraccioinks: Alvin Hollingsworth, Bill Fraccio

Stories

  • If the Coffin Fits..Get In! · 7 pages

    Two brothers fall in love with a mysterious woman they meet at a funeral. She leads them to a curio shop where they buy miniature coffins. Strangely, though, the wooden boxes begin to grow.

  • The Horror of Van Mort! · 7 pages

    John Harvin rents a haunted house, waiting for the ghost of Van Mort to appear. When three friends from the city come visit him and scare him with a practical joke, the ghost rises.

  • Terror of the Ghostly Stallion · 2 pages

    Beautiful Amy's lover Cal was murdered by Amy's guardian, Old Ben. But Cal returns at night as a phantom stallion eloping with Amy.

  • Ghost of the Un-Dead · 7 pages

    American marine lieutenant Allen kills a muslim chieftain in Tripoli in 1815. The dying man puts a curse on all of his descendants. Every Allen visiting Tripoli ever after is being drained of his blood by the vampiristic ghost of the chieftain.

  • Terror of the Ancient Skeleton · 7 pages

    Dr. Luther digs up a skeleton from an Indian burial hill. The bones have mystical powers; whoever dislocates them, suffers terrible consequences.

Reprinted in

Haunted Horror (2012), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010)

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