It's all about letting go....

I must profess I missed the episode of the ABC show LOST when this comic first appeared. The title is Mystery Tales, a more difficult Atlas series to collect, and known for short horror stories during pre-code era and then short often whimsical stories with different twists to intrigue after the comics code passed.

If you are not familiar with LOST, basically characters crash land on an island and discover the powers it contains in a mysterious very slowly unraveling mystery that spanned many seasons.

I guess this comic issue was presented as an option for a character to pick as a test of will/character in the LOST TV series. It was not picked, but that did not stop hoards of LOST fans to try and find copies of the rare issue to see why it was shown in the TV show.

It turns out this little Atlas book may have been a bible of sorts. A mysterious moving land with strange powers at the beginning of the book, and the book concludes with another story of being able to relive events over again. All these plot lines were fully explored in the TV series.

Although the show plot lines never fully resolved with as many answers as viewers would have liked, the impression LOST has made on TV series history is undeniable.

And just as the whole point of the TV show was *letting go* of the past...so too did I *let go* of the money in my bank account for this.

No regrets!

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