How can you go wrong when the first comic kicks off with an eight-pager from Wally Wood (“The Curse of the Sea Witch”)? And that’s only for starters; there are also tales from Joe Orlando, Lou Cameron, Ed Goldfarb, Bill Fraccio, Bill Molno, Vince Napoli, Pierce Rice, Ernie Bache, Harry Harrison, Hy Fleishman and Doug Wildey.
Wild early work by Wood and Orlando, before they came aboard at EC and made history. This is Wood in his primitive but powerful early work, two great covers and a wonderful story. And this title was no slouch in general, with lots of animated skeletons (the publisher knew what sold comics to kids), green monsters, shapely ladies, and heroic adventurers….
Dark Mysteries lasted 24 issues, all the way into 1955, so it was one of the longer running horror titles. We hope PS does the entire run; as far as we know, there is no hardcover version planned.
