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| Wow! Gotta love that cover, and I'm always a sucker for shrunken head horror yarns! If only more of today's horror film makers would read these old classics for inspiration, that moribund (no pun intended) film genre might get an injection of sorely-needed new life. Yup. Anyhoo - thanks for sharing! |
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| [not all that nice I'm afraid]
The comic story "Catastrophe, Inc" is essentially a retread of a (text) short story. It appeared in"Weird Tales" (he pulp) with a similar title. |
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| Publication | July 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Bill |
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| Credits | Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Haunt of the Howling Head (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kip Hunter has been to Borneo and brought along a box full of preservered severed heads. Being responsible for the deaths of these people, the heads come to life and hunt Hunter down. |
| Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Kip Hunter; Mike |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural # 53 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A body of a man murdered in a wine cellar pops up on the wedding night of his killer. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Louise |
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| Comic Story | Fangs of the Fiend (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A dentist extracts all his rival's teeth and replaces them with dog's teeth - turning the man into a werewolf. After going on a rampage, the beast is caught and the teeth are removed again, rendering the man harmless. Only now the doctor got bitten and turns werewolf. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Dr. Arduino; Felix; Eloise |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural # 54 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | One night Vagas opens the grave of a strange man and gets robbed himself - of his soul, by the devil. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Pietro Vagas; The Devil |
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| Comic Story | Catastrophe, Inc. (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Suicidal newspaper reporter Elliot Burke has written his own obituary already when he meets a man with a magic mirror foretelling the future. Burke is able to get some scoops, but he gets careless and that obituary comes in handy after all. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Elliot Burke; Rees; Bernard Lumin; Hobart; Senator Scott; Mrs. Wilson |
| Notes | Story is similar to the science fiction short story "What You Need" by Lewis Padgett (pen name of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). |
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| Text Story | The Claws Rip Deep (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Waiting at a train station in Hungary, Bill Hansford becomes acquainted with a witch. Anna Marie is there to take her revenge on a rival witch, executed by her black cat Dushko. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Bill Hansford; Anna Marie; Dushko; Alichia |
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| Comic Story | Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed. |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Sekowsky | Inks: Vince Alascia |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Dr. Simon Lorch; Ted Watkins; Anne Lorch; Jim; Bob |
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| Featuring | U. S. Defense Bonds |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Reginald R. Myers |
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| Featuring | More-Wate Co. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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