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Publication | June 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Synopsis | A gravedigger is digging a grave and is shocked to find someone alive under the dirt. |
Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | The Witching Well (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The Wildings, Vera and Roy, spend a weekend in a farmhouse Vera has inherited. Their love is put to the test, because Vera is possessed by the soul of an old witch and tries to murder Roy. He finds the witch hiding in a well and can destroy her. |
Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | It's probably still Rocco Mastroserio on inks. |
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Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #23 (1 page) |
Synopsis | "Not too many years ago, in the limehouse section of London, Cyrus Watts ran a profitable enterprise of money-lending..."
When Watts, a born miser, lets a man die of hunger, he is cursed and haunted by the dead man's spectre. Watts tries to expel the ghost with fire - setting his shop and himself on fire. |
Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | Victims of the Twin Scourges (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Rhyming demons transform a couple into a vampire and a werewolf. They hunt together. When separated, the change does not occur. They break up with each other to lead normal human lives. Until they meet again at a party... |
Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #24 (1 page) |
Synopsis | "The Aztec nation of Mexico was conquered by Cortez in 1521. The Aztecs were famous for the accumulation of gold..."
In 1902 two bums blackmail Aztec descendants into telling where the treausures are hidden. The men are lured into an Aztec temple. One of them is ritually sacrificed. The other goes mad. |
Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | Trail of the Phantom Gypsy (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Jeremy Osborne is cursed by a gypsy woman. He has to wander through a parallel world, which he enters by getting on the Paris metro. He has to suffer as all gypsies do and in the end meets the woman again. She is death. |
Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Text Story | Bargain with Satan (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Sir Oliver makes a pact with the devil. He gets thirty years more of his lifetime, but has to murder a thirty-year old woman. He does so in killing his niece. Sir Oliver is young again, but leaves bloody footprints wherever he goes. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | The Bedeviled Battalion (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Colonel Diavolo runs a fort of undead foreign legionnaires in northern Africa. Young American school teacher Nita Varden goes looking there for her missing fiancé. She can trick the devil and put the bones of her lover to eternal rest. |
Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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