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| Nearly perfect crisp scan. Huzzah. |
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| Publication | Summer 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Cover art credit authenticated by article in ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE No. 18 Winter 2007 - Gene Reed 11/27/2010. |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Cover art credit authenticated by article in ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE No. 18 Winter 2007 - Gene Reed 11/27/2010. |
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| Advertisement | The Burgess all-purpose electric sprayer (1 page) |
| Notes | Page includes indicia.
Printed on inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Blood Ship (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The ship the Gloris Dune is christened but at the launch runs over a drunken sailor who curses it at the loss of his hand. Embittered, he signs aboard the whaler and burns her down. Hoping as the only survivor no one will know, he books passage aboard a mysterious whaler and learns it's the ghost ship, with dire consequences for him! |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | George Tuska not credited in issue.
Cover story. Only the ship doesn't feature that exotic figurehead. |
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| Comic Story | The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tom hates his brother Jeff. They both get caught in a terrible snow storm and find shelter in a log cabin with no food. In desperation they hunt in the storm and Tom trips, accidentally shooting his disbelieving brother. He buries him in the snow outside the cabin only to have him appear in the cabin the following 2 mornings. Found screaming, Tom is locked up in a hospital and ends his life digging up his brother to prove to him he didn't kill him. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | George Tuska not credited in issue. |
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| Notes | Ad for Ziff-Davis Comics Group titles: Flyboy, The Hawk, Spacebusters, Speed Smith, Eerie Mysteries, Beanbags, Explorer Joe, Wild Boy, Crime Clinic, Crusader from Mars, Weird Thrillers, Kid Cowboy, Sparkie, Ellery Queen, and GI Joe. Mock covers with just logos and one line identifying description. |
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| Text Story | Jardini's Jaw (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Philip Stang, the world's foremost student of the occult, asks his dead colleague Jan Jardini to impart his knowledge of the secrets of eternity from the afterlife via his jawbone. After gaining this forbidden knowledge, he dies. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Fatal Note! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Walt and Eve are shipwrecked in a storm. Walt holds onto a spar to keep afloat and Eve drowns, screaming for help, as Walt claims the spar cannot hold them both. Walt meets Morta, who tells Walt he will die in a year unless he tells someone how he let Eve drown. Walt is rescued and gradually falls in love with Eve's best friend but is haunted by images of Eve's face as she was drowning. He tells no one and a year to the date of her drowning, he flies to Paris and his flight goes down in the ocean, whereupon he jumps in to be with Eve. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Walter Gregory; Eve Taylor; Morta, Keeper of the Lighthouse of Death; Lillian Darrow |
| Notes | Art credit added by Gene Reed - 12/28/2010 |
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| Comic Story | The Tunnel of Horror (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two bums are scouring the beach and discover a valuable ring, which leads one to kill the other. He then tries to persuade a former fairground colleague to allow him to rejoin the partnership as he now has money. Refusing, the colleague sees that the bum has indeed got money and is setting himself up in competition, and sends the Police round to frighten him. The bum rushes into the Tunnel of Horror to 'see' his murdered victim and dies in the tunnel. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Vision of the Gods (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Two photographers film temples in Ceylon and suddenly see a dancing beauty. On return they find everything fine except she does not appear on their film. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Advertisement | Flash! Special Sale! This Month Only! (1 page) |
| Notes | Ad for Casa de Joyas, New York - selling watches, rings and pendants. |
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| Advertisement | The Chevalier Health Supporter Belt (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Lifts and flattens your bulging "bay window". |
| Notes | Ad for Ronnie Sales Inc, New York. On inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Charles Atlas (1 page) |
| Notes | Ad for Charles Atlas. On back cover. |
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