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| DISAPPOINTED is a word that comes to mind. MISLED is another. No, I'm not talking about the 2012 U.S. Presidential election (although the words apply pretty well there, too), I'm talking about the opening story in this comic, "The Ship Of Lost Souls". The artwork was great, no complaints there. The splash page made me think I was ready to rate Quality horror right up there with my faves, EC, SUPERIOR, and AJAX-FARRELL, I just loved that creepy scene with the risen dead, always a favorite theme for me - and then I got the rug yanked out from under me. IT WAS A HOAX! AAHHH! I could have read a typical code-approved issue of JIMMY OLSEN or something like that to read THAT kind of story! And after that, NONE of the stories were really what I would call horror - except for one. "The Strangling Hands" was EXCELLENT, and it made me all the more disappointed to see Quality could do the job right when they wanted to, but only chose to give us a one-story tease, instead. If not for "Hands", this book would have only gotten a "1" or "2" on my ratings scale at best, for the good artwork. Better luck next time - if I even bother. |
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| Publication | October 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Strangling Hands |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Chuck Cuidera? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Ship of Lost Souls (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The gambling ship “Hades” capsizes and dozens of passengers are killed inside the hull. The ship’s owner, Harry Cain, is responsible for this tragedy, because his ship was not ballasted the right way. Two newspaper reporters, who were allegedly killed onboard, have survived and stage a scoop. Posing as ghosts they kidnap Cain, bring him aboard the “Hades” and make him confess his deadly negligence. As Cain whips out a gun, another tidal wave rolls in and takes Cain down to the bottom of the sea. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Hideout in Hell (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Bexer gang robs a bank and goes into hiding. They quarrel over the loot and two of them shoot each other. When the police come searching the woods, Bexer crawls into the compound where the bodies are stored. His phobia of corpses drives him insane. |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob McCarty |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Horror-suspense |
| Notes | The faces with big eyes, large underlips and bushy eyebrows most probably McCarty, but the inking is "simpler" than his credited work in "Black Magic" #16.
Therefore Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Tillmann Courth revoke the inking credit. |
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| Comic Story | The Strangling Hands (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Collector Noram comes into possession of the severed arms of Jean D’Arst, the infamous French strangler. The arms are rumored to be cursed and to have killed all of their current owners. Noram, however, is strangled by his greedy nephew Don. When the police don’t buy the story of a curse, Don runs – but is strangled by the bodiless arms. |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole? | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | Drums of Doom (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Man Who Cheated Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | John Blane turns 70 years of age and is obsessed with wanting to live forever. One of the researchers in his laboratories comes up with a liquid which will grant eternal life. Blane drinks down the potion after having murdered his employee who was unwilling to part with it. He is quickly sentenced to die in the electric chair, but can’t be killed. The immortal Blane is locked away, but escapes and commits a bank robbery. During his getaway Blane is horribly mutilated in a car accident and has to spend eternity confined to a hospital bed. |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer Saltarella suggested Chic Stone? for pencils and inks. |
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