Mystic #43

In "What Was 'X' the Thing That Lived!", a struggling comic writer finds his imagination has terrifying consequences when the monsters he draws begin to manifest in the real world. As his creations grow more dangerous, he devises a final, unstoppable entity—only to realize too late that some things are better left in the mind.

In "Beyond the Grave," a jealous African king unleashes a captured gorilla to kill the witch doctor, unaware the sorcerer will transfer his mind into the beast before his death. Now bound to the creature’s form, the witch doctor returns with a vengeance, turning the king’s own cruelty against him.

In "Shock!", a radar operator faces a terrifying choice when alien raiders offer him the most beautiful woman in the universe—only to discover her beauty is a trap designed to blind him to the true danger. The story unfolds with tense suspense as he must decide between surrender and survival, caught between illusion and the looming threat of invasion.