Midnight Mystery

Astounding supernatural stories! Amazing Science Fiction! Strange Secrets! This and more is promised by Midnight Mystery, a science fiction-fantasy title from American Comics Group (ACG) from the early 1960s. The stories are standard post-Code science fiction, strongly influenced by the pulps of the 1940s and DC’s successful series, Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space. Typical themes include earth after disaster (atomic bomb, Ice Age, etc.), modern man trapped in forgotten era of history, encounters with misunderstood aliens, battles with monsters, and unexplained phenomena. ACG’s treatment of these stories was neither as rigorously “hard SF” as DC nor as over-the-top as Atlas/Marvel, nor, for that matter, as consistently mediocre as Charlton. Indeed, ACG previously mined this vein successfully with titles like Adventures into the Unknown. However, Midnight Mystery failed to take off and fizzled after only seven issues.

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#2

Mar 1961

Cover: $0.10

W: Kurato Osaki, Richard E. Hughes · A: Ogden Whitney, Tom Hickey, John Rosenberger

1 copy for $24.98
#6

Sep 1961

Cover: $0.10

W: Richard E. Hughes · A: Ogden Whitney, John Rosenberger, Pete Costanza, Edd Ashe

1 copy for $14.98
#7

Oct 1961

Cover: $0.10

W: Richard E. Hughes · A: Paul Reinman, John Rosenberger, Tom Hickey

1 copy for $34.98