Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Five! It has been Eleven Hundred Years since I fell into the unnatural sleep from which thou didst awaken me! All is dead then, I fear! Aye, it must be so, that the spell I conjured forth didst not affect all whom I did love -- And that it did not I can see, else why would this crypt contain naught but my poor flesh, and not the sleeping forms of those with whom I did dwell? 
Appearing in "Magic Is Alive!"
Featured Characters:
- Modred the Mystic (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Grant Whittaker (First appearance)
- Janet Lyton (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- The Other (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- God (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
- Janice (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Gervasse (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Merlin (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- King Arthur (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Enamorath (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Emmoreth (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Ba'al (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Set (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Elianath (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Demons (Referenced)
- Mummies (Mentioned)
- Horses (Only in flashback)
- Dogs (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Elder Gods (Only in flashback)
- Snakes (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Britain (Main story and flashback)
- England (Main story and flashback)
- Isle of Wight (Main story and flashback)
- Cairn of Darkhold (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- British Museum (Mentioned)
- Isle of Wight (Main story and flashback)
- Camelot (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Tower of the Darkhold (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- England (Main story and flashback)
- Britain (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Darkhold (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Magic Is Alive!"
Janet Lyton and Grant Whittacker are digging in a tunnel to find the lost tower of Darkhold in England. Janet's devotion to this find leads them to work through a storm, which washes out the supports of their tunnel, causing it to cave in and trapping them inside. They find another tunnel has been unearthed, however, and it gives off a powerful light. In the adjoining chamber they find what they believe is a perfectly preserved human body in a tomb dating back to the Dark Ages.
However, when Janet accidentally knocks over one of the braziers of strange fire, the man comes to life. He reveals himself to be Modred, a magician's apprentice during the final years of Camelot. He tells them how he was the pupil of a wizard by the name of Gervasse, and was betrothed to his daughter Janice. However, Modred was ordered to resume his training under the tutelage of Merlin. Refusing to do so, as it would mean never getting married to Janet, Modred (in a bid to prove himself an adequate mystic) decides to go to the tower of Darkhold and claim the book of Darkhold, in the hopes that he will be the first magician to ever conquer it, as it is said that the book steals the souls of those who try to master it.
Modred climbed the top of the tower and combatted the book's mystic might. This duel of magic was interrupted when Janice tried to stop him from facing the book. The book took advantage of this and tried to possess Janice's soul. However, Modred sacrificed his own in order to save her and entered into a death-like trance. Knowing that Modred would one day return to life, Gervasse had a special tomb prepared for the man's body to prevent him from suffering the wrath of time.
Finishing his story, Modred's tale is questioned by Whittacker who doesn't believe in magic. However, he changes his tune a little when Modred uses his magical abilities to free them from the tunnel, magnetizing the rocks that trap them so that they repel from each other.
Finally free of the tunnel, Modred muses on what wonders he'll see now that he's walking the Earth again after 1100 years in suspended animation.
Appearing in "It Happened in the Attic!"
Mystical Tales #7
Featured Characters:
- Roger Koning
Supporting Characters:
- Alvin "Al" Sultan
Antagonists:
- Mr. Koning (Roger's Great Great Grandfather) (First appearance; dies)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Alvin Sultan's Time Machine
Synopsis for "It Happened in the Attic!"
Mystical Tales #7
While visiting the laboratory of his friend Alvin Sultan, irresponsible playboy Roger Koning learns that Al has created a time device that allows someone to move forward or backward in time. When Sultan refuses to allow him to use the device to go back in time one hundred years and give his great great grandfather advice on certain investments that would greatly increase his inheritance, Roger waits until Alvin leaves for the day, pries open a window and steals the time device which he takes to the family mansion that he inherited. After stocking up on canned goods, Roger activates the device and begins to "live backwards" at an ever-increasing rate of speed.
Eventually, after a long and tedious time spent in the attic, Roger succeeds in going back one hundred years in time. However, soon after arriving, he is confronted by a young man who demands to know what Roger is doing in his house. When Roger replies that it is his house, the man calls him a liar and an intruder and they both attack each other. When Roger begins to suspect that he is going to lose the struggle, he grabs an iron bar and uses it to kill the other man. It's only after his foe lies dead that Roger remembers that, since he is one hundred years in the past, the house does not actually belong to him and realizes that the dead man is the real owner, his great great grandfather. Realizing that he could never explain the truth to the law, Roger decides to go back to 1957 so that the law will never be able to get him but then realizes that the fact that he has killed his young and unmarried ancestor before he fathered any children means that Roger's great grandfather, grandfather and father will now never be born, and neither will Roger himself. Believing that he can't go back because he no longer exists in the future, Roger realizes that he'll have to stay in the past and take his punishment because the future can't exist for him anymore!
Notes
- In Magic is Alive!
- Plot by Wolfman, script by Mantlo.
- Splash page (page 1) signed by Hannigan, Romita and Giacoia.