The Mystery Tales #40 Lost blog

The Travelers, last story from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book

lost — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:30:33 +0100

The Travelers the last story from the Mystery Tales 40 Comic Book

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Octagon Global Recruiting and its relationship with the Mystery Tales 40 comic book

lost — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:58:40 +0100

Some of our readers pointed us to a new -OK, new to us- sneak peek of the new ARG that the TV network ABC's got prepared for us to make less painful the wait until season 5. As fans of Lost as we are, we love any little thing the Lost marketing team makes for the show, but this time it really caught our attention. Seems like this time they created a website for Octagon Global Recruiting, something like the recruiting company the Dharma Initiative uses to find new people to work for them.

This is the commercial they're airing to promote this new ARG:

At their website you can sign up, and those who do will receive this email:

Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, would like to thank you for registering your expression of interest in our latest volunteer recruitment drive.

We will be launching in San Diego on July 24th at Comic-Con International offering select registrants the opportunity to take an exciting aptitude test that will give applicants the chance to demonstrate their unique talents.

The Dharma Initiative hopes you will be able to join us to find out more about their ground-breaking new research project. We will contact you closer to the date with more information.

For those not able to join us in San Diego, Dharma's full recruitment program will be made available online to registered recruits after July 27th.

In the meantime, the Dharma Initiative urges you to spread the word. Invite your colleagues to join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com and take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Intriguing, to say the least. We'll have to wait and see to know what they have prepared for us at the Comic-Con International. Anyway, what really freaked us out was this. If you go the static version of that email and use the View Source Code option of your web browser, you'll find this:

If you didn't know it, that's exactly the name of the last story from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book. Did you guys think the Mystery Tales 40 comic book ended with The Hidden Land? Looks like it doesn't! This reference may be just the beginning of a lot more connections between the show and the book. We'll have to wait for a while, though. In the meantime, why don't you read all the stories from the book? They're all available for free in this very same blog. And don't forget to tell all your friends about this new cool Lost mystery.

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March has 32 days, last story from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book

lost — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:23:01 +0100

Here's for all of you the last story from the Mystery Tales #40 comic book seen on Lost, called March has 32 days. Enjoy!

So, what will we do now that we've published all the scanned pages from the book? You'll have to wait and see :)

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The Silent Stranger, fifth story from the Mystery Tales book

lost — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:54:43 +0100

Here's for all of you the fifth story from the Mystery Tales #40 comic book seen on Lost, called The Silent Stranger. Enjoy!

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Sammy's Secret, fourth story from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book

lost — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:30:11 +0100

Here's for all of you the fourth story from the Mystery Tales #40 comic book seen on Lost, called Sammy's Secret.Enjoy!

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Lost season finale in DHARMA

lost — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:38:52 +0100

First of all, we'd like to apologize for the delay with the scans, we are going to upload them ASAP.

Last Friday, we went to a very special place to view the Lost season finale:

It's a bar placed in Barcelona called: "Bharma", it was crowded of losties, and we have such a great time!

Yes, that can is a "Dharma energy drink", Ben's favourite drink!!

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Sorry for the delay

lost — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Timmy sez: "We are going to upload the next story ASAP,I scan and upload for bananas!"

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Crossroads of Destiny, the third story from the Mystery Tales comic book

lost — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:53:25 +0100

Here's for all of you the third story from the Mystery Tales #40 comic book seen on Lost, called Crossroads of Destiny.Enjoy!

Did you realize that this story cames with a scientist that is working in a time-travel-machine (Faraday) ,time-travelling (Desmond), and an impossible love story (Desmond and Penny)...nice,right?

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We have experienced some technical problems, Timmy unplugged the wrong cable, sorry about that! Online again!

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A Warning Voice, new story from the book

lost — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:20:17 +0100

As there's been lots of requests asking for the other stories from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book seen on Lost, we'll be uploading them one at a time.

Here's the second one from the book, called A Warning Voice. Enjoy!

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Scans of Mystery Tales 40 comic as seen on Lost - Page 4

lost — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:32:12 +0100

A couple of days later than we announced (sorry about that again), here's the fourth page of the comic book, the last one of the Hidden Land story. At last we can share this with you and talk about the similarities with the show. I know it's not much but it's doing this to have our minds busy or getting crazy waiting for the season finale.

By the way, if you've not read the previous page be sure you read them first. Then, read today's page (on the right) before going on with this post, as we'll talk about some things to highlight:

Fred, the story's main character, is wrapped in the kind of black smoke we saw on the third page, and as a result of that he's teleported to the Tibet, presumably in another point in time than the story until now.
Looks like the dark and shadowy people that chased him are from an ancient civilization who created (or previously owned) the ring.
The leader of this civilization tells Fred the ring has amazing powers than allowed his boss to achieve an outstanding financial success, despite its lack of happiness (like the numbers, maybe?).
The ring has to go back to its owners, as they plan to give it to man kind at some point in the future, when men are pure at heart, so they can benefit from its powers.

The ending of the story arises some questions:

Did the Lost creators based somehow the island's ancient civilization (remember the foot statue) on the one from the comic?
Has some kind of relationship the appearance of the Tibet in the comic with the several mentions of Buddhism in Lost (Richard Alpert ritual with young Locke or the final word of the Dharma Initiative videos)?
Is Jack chaotic and unhappy future an effect of leaving the island with something that doesn't belong to him (Aaron)?

I guess we'll have to wait and see for the season finale this Thursday to get answers to some of these questions. I don't know about you but I'm running out of nails!

UPDATE: Versión en español del cómic Mystery Tales 40 de Lost.

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Sorry for the delay

lost — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:09:33 +0100

We're sorry guys, but the fourth and final page of The Hidden Land story from the comic book won't be uploaded until tomorrow. The guy who has all the scans is -believe it or not- in Russia right now and we've been unable to reach him. Damn company gifts!

We just wanted to apologize publicly for this, as we know a lot of people are really anticipating the ending of the story.

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Scans of Mystery Tales 40 comic as seen on Lost - Page 3

lost — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:13:46 +0100

Here's the third page of "The Hidden Land" story from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book as seen on Lost 4x11 Cabin Fever.

Pretty much at the end of the story we have some more interesting facts similar somehow to details of the show's plot:

The ring on Mr. Castin's office gives power to whoever has it, like the island from Lost.
The dark characters may be "The Others", who don't want Fred (Locke?) to own, control and use the ring.
Those "Others" have also the power of summoning a kind of black smoke that makes travelling through time and space possible.

I don't know about you but the more we know about this story, the more we find interesting stuff similar to the show. If there happens to be a ring on the Orchid station then that would be it ;-)

Stay tuned for the fourth and final page of the Hidden Land story from the book!

UPDATED:

Versión en Español del Comic Mystery Tales 40 de Lost

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Scans of Mystery Tales 40 comic as seen on Lost - Page 2

lost — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:51:33 +0100

Here's the second page of "The Hidden Land" story from the Mystery Tales 40 comic book seen on Lost 4x11 Cabin Fever.

After reading it we have more interesting facts:

It's made more obvious that Mr.Castin (Fred's boss) has a completely unhappy life full of miseries despite of his fortune.
Mr. Castin began the rising of his empire, after being LOST in Tibet, while he was working as a photographer for a Museum.
Fred find out such an odd ring in Mr.Castin's office.

What kind of power this ring provides? What happened to Mr.Castin while he was LOST in Tibet? Will some ring appear on the last season? Is the ring a metaphore?

Since one page per day its not enough for you, lost-junkies, we are going to post also the 3rd page today.

Edited: Mystery Tales 40 page3

UPDATE:

Versión en español del comic Mystery Tales 40 de Lost

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Scans of Mystery Tales 40 comic as seen on Lost - Page 1

lost — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:04:02 +0100

A promise is a promise so here you have the first page of "The Hidden Land" story of the Mystery Tales 40 comic book seen on Lost 4x11 Cabin Fever.

After reading this first page some interesting and intriguing stuff came to our minds:

The main character Fredd Phipps works as a bookkeeper, as the Lost character John Locke did.
His boss, Mr. Castin, is a succesful bussines man ( like Charles Widmore? ), but has such an unhappy life despite all its money: the same thing that happened with Hugo Reyes.
Fredd Phipps reminds us somehow to Ben Linus, doesn't he?

What do you think about it? Any hypothesis? We are looking forward to reading them all.

Stay tunned for the second Mystery Tales 40 scan page coming tomorrow.

Edited: Mystery Tales 40 page 2

UPDATED:

You can find here, a Versión en español del comic Mystery Tales 40 de Lost

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We finally got it!

lost — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:32:58 +0100

This morning at 10:08 it just happened: a FedEx guy arrived with the most wanted package ever.

As John Locke said,The island gives you what you need, so finally we have it.

Since today has been a busy day at the office, we weren't able to scan the whole comic book yet. The only thing we have made for the moment is taking some pictures of ourselves opening the package, and a scan of the first frame.

Our idea is to share the contents of the comic book with all the lost-addicts in the net, while adding some comments about the similarities with the TV show.

Here you have the first frame of THE HIDDEN LAND story from the 'Lost' comic book:

Just a hint: There are vans and spiders on it. Just kidding.

We are looking forward to share it with you, there are several perturbing things that must be commented and debated.

Stay tunned for the scans of the Mystery Tales 40 comic book.

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It's almost here

lost — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Stay tunned for more Mystery Tales 40 info, brother.

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Got it! We won the auction, it's all ours!

lost — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The auction is over; 5 minutes of stress and 417$ later we can proudly say that, finally, we are the winners of the Mystery Tales 40 comic book that appeared on Lost 4x11.

YES! We are the winners of the bid!

We just made the payment, here you can see the invoice:

Now we just have to wait until it arrives: the waiting is the hardest part.

Stay tunned for more Mystery Tales 40 info, the truth is coming!

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Found it! eBay was the key

lost — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

When we were about to give up the search, we found it! It was easier than it looked, it was being auctioned at eBay. Funnily enough, it was there before the 4x11 Lost episode was aired.

Now the thing is... the auction for the Mystery Tales 40 finishes on May 16th, we don't know if we're going to be able to win the item, because now the price is about $130 but, it will definitely raise as the deadline gets closer.

The auction says nothing about it appearing on Lost, but we're sure there are many Lost fans out there that will bid high for this item, we all know what happens in the very last minutes of an eBay auction. We're going to keep an eye on it, anyways. We really need it, the hidden (is)land is waiting for us!

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An impossible mission

lost — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We have been trying to find the comic, but it seems that it's going to be a tough task. It's not a popular comic, so there aren't many copies of it, being a late 50's publication. We haven't found it in any comic store or websitet (scanned). However, we are not going to give up in our search, and will keep on digging up the internet to find it. We are pretty sure that the Mystery Tales 40 contains important clues for the Lost's plot, so we are going to find them out!

If you know someone that has the comic and would want to share its content with us, please contact us ASAP.

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The Hidden (is)Land?

lost — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

As we could see in the Lost episode 4x11: Cabin Fever, a young John Locke was challenged by an almost inmortal Richard Alpert,to choose some items that already belonged to him.

There are several theories about it: Buddhist rituals, resurrection...

It's a fact that one of the most perturbing items was a 1956 Atlas Mystery Tales #40 comic, in which cover appeared a man completely freaked out by the vision of a city in the clouds, floating above another city. Another thing to note from this cover is the almost invisible text in the bottom of it that reads Airlines. So we know the guy is looking through a plane's window.

Maybe you're one of those people who says this is only a mystery story for kids, that it's not relevant in the Lost plot. Are you really sure? Nothing in Lost is coincidential.

Let me show you something. Here you can see the Lost 4th season promotional poster, with all the main characters from our favourite island in it, surrounded by the great and deep ocean. Do you see anything weird on this image? No? Let's take a closer view of a part of it, or even better, lets put it upside down, and see what happens with that big chunk of sea water on the lower half of the image. Actually, let's put it side by side with the Mystery Tales comic cover.

They looks almost the same! What is the relationship between a 1956 old fashioned kids comic and the promotional Lost image? Are they trying to tell us that the island is also hidden? Is that the reason because nobody (until now) is able to arrive to the island?

Too many questions, and only 3 episodes left from this 4th season.

Everything points out to this: we need that comic.

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