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| Maybe someone can explain this to me.
In the additional information box for " The Well of Fear! "
It says ' Pencils: Bill Molno [as Joe Shuster] (signed)'
The pencils do look like Molno, why would Molno sign as Joe Shuster. It think it must mean that Shuster wrote the story and Molno drew it. Why he didn't put his name on it, I don't know. |
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| Loved Bill Molno’s work on The Well of Fear – a classic illustration of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (or why cooperation is better than competition). If both trust each other and cooperate, they both escape; if one or the other is suspected of cheating, the other does not cooperate and they both lose; if neither cooperates with the other in any way, they both lose. Also applies to trade wars for those who may be interested. |
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| The GCD page has a link to this blog explaining it. http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/10/joe-shusters-charlton-ghost.html |
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| Thanks,
I'll be adding this blog to my list. It seems that Shuster was contracted to do the work, and he paid Molno out of his own pocket.
Probably happened quite a bit. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Advertisement | $100,000 Ring Sale (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (Photo) | Inks:? (Photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for any ring, your choice, $1.98 tax paid.
Indicia at the bottom of page.
Inside cover. |
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| Comic Story | Who Will He Be? (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | An Arabian tyrant uses sleep-deprivation to torture his opponents and find out about assassination plots about him. Some day something out of the ordinary happens. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Well of Fear! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bankrobbers Logan and Sellis get trapped in an old well and can't get out. They mistrust each other and won't help the other to escape. They both perish miserably. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Cover story. Molno pencils per Martin O'Hearn's blog: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/10/joe-shusters-charlton-ghost.html |
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| Comic Story | Surprise Package (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gustav Perrin steals a miniature atom bomb, but loses it to a suicidal stranger who jumps off a building with it. The jumper, however, has a parachute and does an advertisement stunt. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Reader's solution to write-in-contest for a new ending from "Strange Suspense Stories" #19 (July 1954).
Memling script per Martin O'Hearn's blog: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2016/04/carl-memling-suspense-stories.html |
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| Text Story | Sam the Seer (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sam Snittleman can foresee the future. He knows that a crime mobster will kill him. When he does, Snittleman returns from the dead as "Mr. Vision" and leads the police to his murderers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | This Bite is Sweet! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Peter North is a vampire. He settles down in a village in the Pyrenees and terrorizes the good people. When he meets the lovely Monique, North is torn between love and blood lust. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | first-person narrative |
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| Comic Story | The Mark of the Ripper! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Police detective Baird has to bring down the "Ripper", a knife-wielding maniac on the loose. Following the clues Baird is confronted with the fact that he himself is the "Ripper". |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Horror-suspense |
| Notes | First page of the story has a "Steve Ditko-ish" appearance to the art. |
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| Comic Story | No Questions Asked (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Hurtt needs fresh cadavers for his anatomy sessions. When he gets blackmailed he decides to commit a murder and thus kill two birds with one stone. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Write-in contest for readers to contribute an ending to this story. |
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| Advertisement | Amazing Double-Action Skin Treatment (1 page) |
| Featuring | Scope Products |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos);? | Inks:? (photos);? |
| Notes | Ad in black and white for skin treatment. |
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| Advertisement | Why Just Wish for the Things You Want? (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: girl; dad; mom; boy (all in photos) |
| Notes | Ad for selling Christmas cards for Wallace Brown, Inc. |
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| Advertisement | Come On, Buddy, Quit Being a Bag-of-Bones Weakling Like I Was (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) |
| Content | Characters: Jim Norman; George Jowett |
| Notes | Body-building ad.
Inside back cover. |
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| Hello, Bob - Have You Found that Underseas Treasure? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Bob fruitlessly searches the ocean floor for treasure, until Sam tells of his own "treasures" he received for selling Cloverine Brand Salve. |
| Content | Characters: Bob; Sam; girl; lady |
| Notes | Comics ad for Wilson Chemical Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Cloverine Brand Salve. Among the many prizes offered in the ad is a live pony. Color ad on back cover. |
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| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
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