Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Mystery Comics Digest Number 2: Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery

Here's the cover:
The table of contents:
This comic carries on the text stories like the very first Digest, with two embedded within. There are two very good medieval based stories, at the beginning and the end. Nice artwork and interesting stories.
"Comet With A Curse" is a stupid story That runs for 11 pages. The main character's hair looks half pulled out, and you might do the same with this silly story about a talking comet. Another long story is "A Cage For Hassan" that runs over 20 pages. Irony and ugly art make this a chore. There's a real story that could have been a Ripley's, about Major Martin, a corpse that was planted for the Nazi's to find along with some false documents.
A repeat from the first Boris Karloff digest is here, "Voyage of No Return", about a cruel sea captain who finds justice. This is an effective story with good artwork.
Overall impression? A weak presentation, and not the first on any list.
A couple of pictures of the knights in the first story "The Sorcerer's Potion" and the last "Vengeance of the Armored Arm".

Great artwork!

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