Midnight Mystery

 MID6   (ACG, 1961)

™ and ©1961 ACG

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.

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  1/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $52.00 No copies available		Richard Hughes, Kurato Osaki	Paul Reinman, John Rosenberger, John Forte, Ogden Whitney
	#2 Date:  3/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $28.00 No copies available		Kurato Osaki, Richard Hughes	Ogden Whitney, Tom Hickey, John Rosenberger
	#3 Date:  5/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $43.00 No copies available		Kurato Osaki, Richard Hughes	John Forte, Paul Reinman, Edvard Moritz
	#4 Date:  7/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $28.00 No copies available		Kurato Osaki, Richard Hughes	Paul Reinman, Pete Costanza, Ogden Whitney
	#5 Date:  8/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $30.00 No copies available		Richard Hughes	Ogden Whitney, John Rosenberger, Paul Reinman, Tom Hickey
	#6 Date:  9/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $76.00 No copies available		Richard Hughes	Ogden Whitney, John Rosenberger, Pete Costanza, Edd Ashe
	#7 Date:  10/1/1961 Cover Price:  $0.10 NM Guide:  $20.00 No copies available		Richard Hughes	Paul Reinman, John Rosenberger, Tom Hickey