Mystic (1951 Atlas)

Mystic (1951 Atlas)

Release Date:  9//1954
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Medium:  Literature
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Release Message:  Abner is working on his time booth when the completed machine suddenly appears to him; he uses it to try and snap photographs of the future, but the images don't translate to film. At a demonstration, Hal enters the time-booth and winds up 500 years in the future, whereupon the reptillian people of that time destroy the time-booth, having invented it to "fish" for a human.
Description:  Abner is working on his time booth when the completed machine suddenly appears to him; he uses it to try and snap photographs of the future, but the images don't translate to film. At a demonstration, Hal enters the time-booth and winds up 500 years in the future, whereupon the reptillian people of that time destroy the time-booth, having invented it to "fish" for a human. "Pain!" (art by Tony DiPreta), "It Happened 'Neath the Sphinx" (art by Jack Katz), "The Part-Time Corpse!" (art by Al Eaden), "the Man Who Vanished," "The Unexpected!" (art by Ogden Whitney), and a two-page text story, "Tomorrow." Cover price $0.10.