Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, #21

Published: March 1968

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Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #21

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Issue Contents:
The Dream Demon
1 page horror-suspense
Characters
  • Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
Story Notes

Art identification by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).

Incident at Devil's Lake
Story 1 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Dream Demon
Story 2 9 pages horror-suspense
Credits
Story Notes

Unknown inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Joe Orlando.

Death Haunts the Opera
Story 3 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Art confirmed by Alberto Becattini (January 2011).

The Ghostly Images
Story 4 4 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Art not André LeBlanc, Alberto Becattini (January 2011).

Featuring Art Gallery

Story 5 1 page
Story Notes

Pictures and short paragraphs on the Aardvark, the Platypus, the Armadillo and the Gnu.

Bull
Story 6 1 page
Story Notes

Four, illustrated definitions of the word 'bull'.

Story 7 1 page
Story Notes

Four, one panel gags. "Actually, He's bald! Those are his eyebrows!" 2 girls looking at a hipster. "Boy! He sure must have a tall dog!" 2 kids commenting on a Buckingham Palace guard house. "Harold, must we stay in this lane?" A female concerned about her companion following to close to a truck pulling a canon. "What native ritual dance? This the frug!" 2 native women dancing.

Story 8 1 page
Story Notes

Four three-panel gags. A golfer makes a hole-in-one... with his club. A man has to hold the TV antenna for the picture to focus for his wife to watch a western. A fisherman catches a boot and throws it away before realizing a fish was inside it. A hummingbird falls in love with a dart.

The Scavengers
Story 9 9 pages
Story Notes

Newman script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2020.

The Screaming Skull
Story 10 3 pages
Credits
Flying Carpet (1)
Story 11 1 page
Storyline

A man uses his flying carpet as shade in the desert.

Mad Scientist (1)
Story 12 1 page
Storyline

A mad scientist changes into different monsters, but when he turns into a dog, he is picked up by a dog catcher.

The Opossum
Story 13 1 page
The Storm
Story 14 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Boris Karloff Pin-Up
Story 15 1 page horror-suspense
Story Notes

Back cover. Reprint of the front cover without photograph, logo or caption.