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| Maybe the damned are just annoyed that the living would ask for their assistance in solving their troubles. You know, "Problems? You think YOU got problems?" |
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| Exactly ... lol!
"I am burning in the fires of hell, and you want to know what next week's lottery numbers will be?" |
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| The cover looks to be inspired by the story "The Reluctant Ghost" ffrom issue #1 |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Synopsis | Angry spirits are conjured up during a seance. |
| Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Leopard Girl's Dread Domain (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Explorers in the Congo jungle encounter white jungle girl Felia. She commands a tribe of cat people and can change into a leopard herself. When explorer Lawton kills her idol chief, Felia loses her powers and is crushed to death by the falling idol. |
| Credits | Pencils: Chic Stone |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense; Jungle |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #19 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In the year 1623, a bold highwayman named Roger Pike was victimizing rich travelers..."
Pike is caught and hanged, but his ghost still rides along King's Highway in London. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | Release from Satan's Scourge (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | American film set location scout Gil Jenkins visits an english castle. He discovers a "Book of Demons" and accidentally releases them. By conjuring the Black Duke, who wrote the book, the minions of Satan are again caught and confined in the book. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron | Inks: Lou Cameron |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Inks are probably by Rocco Mastroserio. They worked as a team in this phase of Ace horror comic books. |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #20 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Curses are strange things, and tales have been told of odd incidents [...] of curses coming true..."
A princess envies her sister for her necklace. She kills her and wears it. The necklace (cursed by the dying woman) strangulates the murderess. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Prisoners in a Lost World (6.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two explorers discover the underground kingdom of Xandia, hidden in the Himalayas. They are imprisoned and have to fight wild beasts. Only one of them can escape back to western civilization. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Bottom of last page has statement of ownership naming naming A. A. Wyn as publisher and Rose Wyn as managing editor. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Text Story | Land of Dolls (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A mystery writer is wrecking his brain for a "good weird fantasy story". He takes the elevator to get new cigarettes and is transported to an underground land of living dolls: "This is where damaged dolls go when they are no longer loved". They believe him to be their doll maker. The editor can bring them to the real doll maker, who opened up his shop down the hall from the publisher's. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Meta-level selfreferential story. |
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| Comic Story | The Spell of the Hanging Tree (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A violin, made out of the wood of a hanging tree, has strange powers. The owner can play like a maestro, but will transform into a werewolf-like beast as well. The violin is destroyed and all magic ends. |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Molno | Inks: Vince Alascia? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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