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| Date | | Number: 21 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Witches Tales 21 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Lee Elias |
| Inks | Lee Elias |
| Contents | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Text descriptions and thumb-nails from each of the 4 stories in this issue. |
| Comic Story | The Invasion (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill and his wife stay home due to a storm. Their radio is broken and their television set can only get one channel because of the weather. They see a news broadcast depicting an invasion from outer space. Flying saucers land at Coney Island and wipe out the defenders. A Martian spokesman says all inhabitants of Earth will be eliminated. Bill shoots his wife and commits suicide. But the broadcast was just "an original tele-screen drama entitled The Invasion From Mars." |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | Bill; Bill's wife; John Bronheit |
| Script | Bob Powell ? |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| Notes | Cover story. |
| Text Story | Blind Alley |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title |
| Synopsis | House ad for "Ripley's Believe It or Not! Magazine." The cover of issue #1 is shown. |
| First Line | Now on sale at all newsstands! |
| Notes | Although this is called a "magazine," it is actually in comic book format. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes |
| Pencils | Howard Nostrand |
| Inks | Howard Nostrand |
| First Line | Tommy Trot ... a man we deplore! |
| Comic Story | Revenge (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ron and his wife Melissa go on vacation in a trailer. They camp near a small town and Ron goes to purchase supplies. When he returns, Melissa says she was raped. They drive around the town until Melissa spots her assailant, and Ron kills the man with a hammer. However, immediately afterwards Melissa sees someone else and says "There he is!" Ron realises she has gone insane and he just killed an innocent man. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | Ron; Melissa; the town dandy |
| Pencils | Manny Stallman |
| Inks | Manny Stallman |
| Notes | Based on the short story "Revenge" by Samuel Blas. This story was first published in Colliers (January 11, 1947). The story was also used as the basis for "Revenge," an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" shown on 2 October 1955, and also in the new Hitchcock television series in 1985. It also served (uncredited) as inspiration for the TV-movie "Revenge for a Rape" (1976). |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for other Harvey publications. The page is in three sections. One lists four romance titles; a second highlights "Teen-Age Brides" (which is not one of the previous 4 titles); the third deals with Harvey's 4 "suspense" titles ("Witches Tales," "Black Cat Mystery," "Chamber of Chills," and "Tomb of Terror"). Covers of all 9 titles are displayed. |
| First Line | Honest Daring Uncensored |
| Comic Story | The Chase (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ellen and her boyfriend John visit an Asian tea shop, where an old woman warns Ellen to beware of the "Dark Man" and the "Teeth of the Dragon," and to remember "you have no wings!" Later, a man dressed in black tries to speak to her, but Ellen flees. She falls off a roof, hits a dragon statue and dies. The man in black says he was just trying to inform her that she'd inherited a million dollars from a distant relative. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | Ellen Temple; John |
| Pencils | Jack Sparling |
| Inks | Jack Sparling |
| Text Story | Come Fill the Cup |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title |
| Synopsis | Subscription form for "Witches Tales" comic. |
| First Line | Subscribe now to the newest treat in terror! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes |
| Genre | Humor; Horror-suspense |
| Pencils | Howard Nostrand |
| Inks | Howard Nostrand |
| First Line | This is the man all tattered and torn |
| Comic Story | Dead End (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Business executive Jim and his wife Madeline leave for a vacation at their lodge, but Jim's ex-partner Andro--who had been sent to prison as a scapegoat--appears and blackmails them. Jim kills Andro and drags the corpse into their vacation home, only to discover his co-workers and children are there to give him a surprise birthday party. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | Jim Trent; Nicholas; Pearson; Miss Adams; Madeline Trent; Teddie; Carl Andro |
| Script | Howard Nostrand ? |
| Pencils | Howard Nostrand |
| Inks | Howard Nostrand |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
