Mystic #10
In "Bluebeard," a chilling tale from Mystic #10 (1952), a sinister innkeeper known only as Bluebeard preys on his guests, but his reign of terror takes a supernatural turn when a thief’s mysterious bottle of Nitro becomes his undoing. With haunting artwork by Tony DiPreta and a striking cover by Russ Heath, this eerie story unfolds as the line between killer and victim blurs in the aftermath of an explosion no one saw coming.
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A man who calls himself Bluebeard murders and robs the guests of his inn, but when a thief carrying a bottle of Nitro becomes his latest victim, Bluebeard decides to dispose of the bottle outside. When he returns to the inn, the ghosts of his former victims are now able to seize his body as he is unaware that what he took for lightning and thunder was the bottle exploding in his hand and he is now a ghost.
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