Mystic #46

Atlas Comics' Mystic #46 from 1956 delivers three tantalizing tales wrapped in a striking triptych cover by Sol Brodsky — a man recoiling from an animated, glowing key; a figure lunging through a swirling vortex toward his own double while onlookers watch in alarm; and a massive, looming green-sleeved hand hovering over a distant couple in a room, promising something deeply unsettling. Each vignette teases a different flavor of the uncanny, from eerie objects with a life of their own to questions of identity and shadowy strangers. For fans of mid-1950s Atlas horror-mystery anthologies, this is a satisfying ten-cent package of the weird and wonderful.