| Additional Information |
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| Publication | 1963 | Price: 1'- [0-1-0 GBP] | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Cover inspired by page one of source story. |
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| Cover | The Curse of Carnoc Castle |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Cover inspired by page one of source story. |
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| Publisher advertisement | For the Best in Comics Entertainment! (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Popeye; Olive Oyl; Phantom; Marvelman; Young Marvelman; Mandrake; two unknown aliens |
| Notes | Inside front cover advert for various L. Miller comics including Popeye, Phantom, Marvelman, Young Marvelman, Mandrake, Spellbound and Mystic |
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| Comic Story | The Curse of Carnoc Castle (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | After two hundred years the Duke of Allister rises newly born from his casket at Carnoc Castle. Now immortal, he seeks to lead a second life. But the forces of witchcraft which granted him his gift return to haunt the Duke. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Doctor Death (host); Delena (newspaper reporter); Mario (newspaper reporter); Joseph (coachman); Duke of Allister (2 centuries dead); Duke of Allister (current day) |
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| Comic Story | Stand-in for Death (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Karl Danner steals the coat of a dying man and uses the ticket he finds in its pockets to escape aboard a ferry. Unfortunately he has chosen the ferry of the dead and is doomed to ride along. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Doctor Death (host); Karl Danner; Alec Norden; Helene Norden; Lew Tilden; Doctor Feder |
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| Text Story | Doctor MacCready's Little Men (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In Dr. MacCready's sanatorium for the mentally ill the inmates are shrunken to keep them at bay. An investigating reporter gets involved and ends up in a bird cage. |
| Credits | Script: Al Schutzer | Pencils:? (title illustration) | Inks:? (title illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Dr. MacCready |
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| Comic Story | The Coffin Maker! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Beautiful Carlotta marries undertaker Hiram for his money. Things get dangerous when she finds out that her husband made a pact with the devil in person. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Doctor Death (host); Carlotta Frawley; Hiram Frawley |
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| Comic Story | The Gun (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midwestern boy Frankie finds a .38 caliber automatic pistol and impresses Bonnie so much she takes him back to Kansas City with her to learn from Big Ed and his two sons. Frankie get impatient, kills all 3 of them, and goes on a crime spree with Bonnie. He earns the sobriquet "Gunner". |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Johnny Thorpe (dies); Jim Ryan; Sheriff Saunders; Joe Finley (dies); Frankie Dane [Gunner] (dies); Bol Woodcock; Bonnie Trasker; Big Ed (dies); Lem (dies), Shim (dies) |
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| Comic Story | Charlie (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Winthrop Peters, Jr. relies on his unseen companion Charlie, but when Winthrop's uncle and aunt make plans for private school, Charlie has other ideas. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Winthrop Peters, Jr.; Joe Taft (uncle); Mary Taft (aunt); Miss Jones (piano teacher) |
| Notes | Joe Taft is called Alexander Taft in a caption in panel 2. |
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| Featuring | Flash Gordon |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Flash Gordon |
| Notes | House advert for Flash Gordon comics.
"Out now!"
"On sale at your newsagent 1'-"
On inside rear cover. |
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| Advertisement | Famous 'Export Parcel' (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (enlarged pictures of stamps) | Inks:? (enlarged pictures of stamps) | Colors:? (blue used) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement from Broadway Approvals.
On outside rear cover.
"129 Different Stamps"
"Send 1/- today. Ask for lot W27" |
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