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| These Purple Claw comics are so far above the grade for their contemporaries. I adore them. Only flaw is most of these end with a punch from the claw, but the build-up is choice. What a great early foray into the point where superheroes and horror intersect! Dr. Weir beat both Dr. Strange and Constantine to the punch...all while looking like Jason Blood. Hail to the first superhero ghost-breakers! |
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| Publication | May 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Giant from the Tomb |
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| Comic Story | The Giant From the Tomb (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a small city-state in central Europe, Dr. Weir has to contend with the evil dictator Horak and the undead giant Golga. |
| Content | Characters: Horak (villain, death); Golga (villain, death); Marla; Karl |
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| Comic Story | Death Flower (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Purple Claw encounters a creepy old man that turns into a huge "Death Flower" at night that lives in the Florida swamps and feasts on human flesh. |
| Content | Characters: Sam Barney; "Trigger" Martex; Walter Parker; Marge Parker |
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| Featuring | Sparks of Life |
| Notes | 6 single panel cartoons: "Favorite Day-Dreams," "Folks We Have Envied," et al.
Reprinted from newspaper comics. |
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| Comic Story | The Final Horror (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Alcoholic scientist Bill Bartel enters a horrible dream world every night. Dr. Weir uses the Purple Claw to enter that dream world. He gets Bartel to fight the final horror - an incarnation of the evil side of Bartel. |
| Content | Characters: Bill Bartel |
| Notes | The next non-reprint appearance was in AC's FemForce: Out of the Asylum (1987 series) #1. |
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| Text Story | Just What the Doctor Ordered (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
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