Mystery Tales #15

In "The Little Monster!", a botched kidnapping leads to chaos when agents of a foreign power seize the wrong man—a former asylum inmate working on a secret project. When he escapes, he unleashes a mysterious contagion that transforms his captors into apes. Dick Ayers handles both pencils and lettering, with Ernie Bache inking the tale, while Russ Heath delivers the cover art. A 10-cent comic from 1953, this issue blends Cold War paranoia with early sci-fi horror in a tightly wound, suspenseful story.