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Publisher: Marvel

Title: World of Mystery
Issue: 4
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: December 1956
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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World of Mystery 4
Owner: gojira

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Story Title: What Happened in the Basement? - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: The Things in the Window - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Cal (second name unknown); an unnamed woman; an unnamed real estate agent; some other dimensional beings
Synopsis:Cal rents a isolated house whose former tenant, a young woman, mysteriously disappeared. He discovers that one of the house's windows lets no light into the property. Climbing through it, he enters a strange other dimension, where he finds the former tenant, and helps her escape back to their own dimension, evading some mist-like creatures. Once back in their own world, Cal smashes the window, destroying the gateway.


Story Title: The Forbidden Land - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:J. M. Evans (a pilot at World View magazine); Clyde Hover (a photographer at World View magazine); Roger Wayne (a writer at World View magazine); A tribe of Peruvian Indians (including King Tohotal); Bill Hopkins (an editor at World View magazine)
Synopsis:World View magazine sends a team to watch an ancient ritual performed by a tribe of Peruvian Indians. The men observe the sacred rites, despite the Indians attempts to stop them. However, when they return to the magazine's offices they find that all was not what it seemed.


Story Title: Let the Creature Beware! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Judd Kerr; the inhabitants of the town of Keysville (including the Curvolot Family); the inhabitants of the town of Abbyville (including Hermit Eb)
Synopsis:Conman Judd Kerr gets more than he bargained for when he tries to part the inhabitants of Abbyville by claiming that an alien is living in their midst.


Story Title: The Dreadful Dream - comic story
Pages:3
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Frank Beech; Madge Beech; Charley (a commuter on the same train that Frank Beech uses to get to work - seen only in a dream)
Synopsis:Frank Beech wakes from a dream in which he is involved in a train wreck. En route to work the next morning, his dream comes true - and then he wakes up. It was a dream within a dream. He decides not to tempt fate by going into work that day.


Story Title: Secrets from Space - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:detective-mystery


Story Title: The Man with Yellow Eyes - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Lee Forest (a soldier nick-named "Yellow Eyes"); the unnamed narrator of the story (a fellow soldier); other members of their platoon (including Charley); a jungle guide
Synopsis:Sgt. Lee Forest, nick-named 'Yellow Eyes' by the other members of his platoon, is a giant of a man, with an almost cat-like way of moving. Serving in Africa during World War II, his life is saved by another member of the platoon. Both men go their separate ways after the war, though both remain in Africa. When his savior is attacked by a lion, Forest emerges from the jungle and calls it off. His debt repayed, 'Yellow Eyes' returns to his true home - the depths of the jungle.


Story Title: What Happened in the Basement? - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:John Winters (a would-be inventor); his wife Madge and two unnamed sons; citizens of the year 2496 AD
Synopsis:When a freak accident transports John Winters 550 years into the future, he is arrested as an alien spy. Given ten minutes to prove his innocence, he is saved when one of his sons enters the basement and switches off Winters' "accidental time machine", thus bringing the inventor back to his own time.


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