Mystic #8
In "We Meet at Midnight!" from Mystic #8 (1952), a desperate man stumbles into a gypsy's tent and is handed a pair of glasses that transform the fortune teller into a vision of beauty—her words twisting his mind with promises and lies. As he returns with stolen money, the same tent pole trips him again, and the glasses reveal the truth: the woman he’s been serving is an old hag. Bill Everett’s art brings the eerie atmosphere to life, while the cover by Carl Burgos and Sol Brodsky captures the story’s haunting mood.
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A man bumps into the tent pole and drops his glasses, so the Gypsy fortune teller hands him a pair that makes her appear beautiful and convinces him to murder his wife and steal from his boss for her. When he returns to her with the money he bumps into the pole in the darkened tent again and she hands him the repaired glasses he originally dropped. She is then revealed as an old hag.
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