Mystic #57

In "I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!!", a boy in a small New Mexico town finds himself facing an alien invader with a spider-like form, a threat too bizarre for adults to comprehend. When fear and disbelief paralyze the townspeople, it’s the boy’s love of science-fiction comics that gives him the courage—and the clever idea—to turn the tide with nothing more than a spray can of DDT.

In "The Spider!", a young boy's secret obsession with his giant spider spirals into something monstrous when he begins feeding it his neighbor's animals—and then the neighbor himself. After the creature bites him, the boy undergoes a terrifying transformation, becoming the very thing he nurtured.

In "Mirror of Mephisto," a desperate man stumbles upon a haunted mirror that opens a door to a devil-ridden realm. Drawn by greed, he begins crafting more mirrors to trap his own kin, hoping to claim a hidden family fortune undisturbed. But as the mirror world begins to consume him, his scheme spirals beyond control.

In "Save Me From the Weed!", a seemingly ordinary gardener’s quiet dedication takes on cosmic stakes when a single snip of a strange, radioactive telepathic weed becomes the key to averting disaster. While his employer pushes him toward ambition, the man’s unassuming skill with a pair of shears proves vital in a moment of planetary peril.

In "Enter...the Robot!", a mine foreman’s fear of being replaced by a new robot leads him to sabotage its control panel. When a cave-in traps him underground, he learns too late that the robot was designed as a rescue unit—and his only way out is to somehow restore its function, now that the wiring he disrupted is his own undoing.

In "I Was A Slave of the Living Hulk!", a young electrician stumbles upon a dormant alien criminal and unwittingly awakens him—only to find himself bound by a psychic command that enslaves all of humanity. Forced to help construct a ship for the alien’s escape, the electrician must outwit his captor and find a way to stop the planet-destroying plan before it’s too late.

In "Long Shall the Undead Wail," the cursed remnants of Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer—bound by centuries of guilt and undead torment—finally succumb to the madness of their eternal existence in 1953, their ancient hatred erupting in a violent, inevitable clash. A haunting tale of doomed lovers whose dark legacy refuses to die, this chilling story unfolds with relentless dread.

In "The Thing Behind the Wall!", a desperate thief stumbles through a hidden passage in a crumbling wall—only to face a malevolent presence with designs on Earth. After barely escaping, he’s arrested and locked in a cell, now haunted by the memory of what he saw and too terrified to test the truth by touching the wall that might still be a portal.