Crime Mysteries #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Revenge of Professor Zarno!", a Hollywood agent's dangerous scheme to eliminate a rival Yogi—using the mystic's own hypnotic act to fake his wife's death—unravels in unexpected ways. Art Gates handles both pencils and inks in this 1953 thriller, bringing a stark, shadow-drenched atmosphere to a tale of deception and dark magic.
When criminal psychiatrist Lance Storm becomes the target of Professor Zarno's revenge, he finds himself hunted by three deadly women and a killer robot—each competing for the honor of ending the crime fighter's life. As Storm pieces together the mystery of his masked attackers and their mysterious leader's plan, he races to turn the tables on his most dangerous adversary before Zarno's final trap springs shut.
In "You Are the Murderer!" from Crime Mysteries #9 (1953), a Hollywood agent becomes obsessed with the wife of a mysterious Yogi whose eerie carnival act involves putting her into a deathlike trance. When he convinces the Yogi to stage a fake death for publicity, his true intentions—desire to eliminate the Yogi and claim the woman for himself—begin to unravel in ways he never expected.
Susan Buell is a manipulative seductress who uses her charms to ruin the lives of every man she encounters—driving Jed Hawkins's son Mark to murder his own father, pushing Randy Breen into theft and prison, and turning lawyer James Gell away from his fiancée Betty Blake. When Susan's web of destruction finally catches up with her, she faces an unexpected judgment that reveals the stakes of her wicked game are far higher than she ever imagined.
When priceless Egyptian artifacts vanish from the City Museum—including a three-thousand-year-old mummy—Dr. Foo and his ward Nalya investigate a theft that defies ordinary logic. The fantastic Chinese mystic discovers that Amen Tohep, an ancient sorcerer, has somehow returned to life and is gathering the magical tools needed to unleash forces beyond mortal comprehension. As Dr. Foo pursues the mysterious thief through Cairo and the city zoo, he must uncover the identity behind the disguise and stop a dead magician before his dark spells consume the world.
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Reprinted in '50s Terror #2 (1988), The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! #[nn] (2010), Haunted Horror #34 (2018), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Ghosts #[nn] (2019)
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