Anthology type comic with spooky and mystery stories hosted by famous classic horror film actor Boris Karloff. This issue features "The Thing Called Illona," "Behemoth," "The Metamorphs," and "Death is the Hunter." Issue also has one-page text feature "The Strangling Pearls" and Gold Key Comics Club News features. No story/art credits given. Inside front cover promotes some of the first Gold Key "Poster- Comics," a comic book which came with large poster. Poster-Comics advertised are the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Dark Shadows. On cover: 10053-903, March.Cover price $0.15.
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During the run of Thriller, Karloff lent his name and likeness to a comic book for Gold Key Comics based upon the series. After Thriller was cancelled, the comic was retitled Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery. An illustrated likeness of Karloff continued to introduce each issue of this publication for more than a decade after his death (he wasn't involved however in writing or drawing the stories); the comic book lasted until the early 1980s (a Gold Key comic book series based upon The Twilight Zone that ran concurrently with Karloff's did the same thing with host Rod Serling's likeness after his death). In 2009, Dark Horse Comics began publishing reprints of Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery in a hardcover edition. 2ff7e9595c
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