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| - Mystery Comics Digest was published for 26 issues, from 1972 to 1975. All reprinted stories from three of Gold Key's mystery/suspense/fantasy/science fiction anthologies: Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery, and Twilight Zone, in a three-issue rotation. Each issue highlighted the title it was reprinted from on the cover. Issue focus:
* Believe It or Not!- #1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25
* Boris Karloff- #2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26
* Twilight Zone- #3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24 Tragg appeared in issues #3 and 9 before getting his own title.
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| - Mystery Comics Digest was published for 26 issues, from 1972 to 1975. All reprinted stories from three of Gold Key's mystery/suspense/fantasy/science fiction anthologies: Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery, and Twilight Zone, in a three-issue rotation. Each issue highlighted the title it was reprinted from on the cover. Issue focus:
* Believe It or Not!- #1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25
* Boris Karloff- #2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26
* Twilight Zone- #3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24 In addition to reprints, each issue had several original works. Some of these would introduce characters who appeared in Don Glut's titles at Gold Key: Dagar, Doctor Spektor, and Tragg. Tragg appeared in issues #3 and 9 before getting his own title. Doctor Spektor appeared in issues #5, 10-12, and 21, most before getting his own title. Duroc/Durak, who would assist Dagar appeared in issues #7, 14, 15. Dagar's foe Xorkon appeared first in #14. The first two Duroc stories were originally intended to be Dagar. Also, several of the creatures that Dr. Spektor fought appeared here first, including Ra-Ka-Tep (#1), Count Wulfstein the werewolf (#2), Simbar the were-lion (#3), Baron Tibor (#4), Lurker in the Swamp (#7).
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