Mystic #5

In "The City That Vanished," a mysterious alien force drags entire cities into space, leaving Earth in peril. With no other choice, a desperate group of survivors arm a city with atomic and hydrogen bombs, sending it hurtling toward the hostile planet that stole their homes.

In "It Creeps By Night!" from Mystic #5 (1951), a man haunted by an overwhelming dread of cats sees death as his only escape—perhaps even a chance to be reborn free of his phobia. What follows is a chilling twist: his wish for a new life leads him to awaken as a mouse, now facing the very fear he sought to outrun.

In "The Face in the Picture," a reclusive photographer finds himself drawn into a chilling mystery when his new neighbor—a woman who seems kind and normal—begins to unsettle him. As his camera captures something deeply wrong in the photos, he begins to question everything he knows, especially when the images reveal a truth hidden from the eye.

In "Trapped!", a man whose fascination with space time borders on obsession finds himself shrunk and imprisoned in a tiny box after meeting a real space time researcher. Though invisible and unheard, he’s not alone—his fellow enthusiast, driven by shared curiosity, builds a machine to explore dimensions and sets out to rescue him. When the rescue succeeds, the freed researcher returns to normal size, but proving his story to skeptical friends takes a twist neither expected.