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| The stories aren't overly interesting, but the last one, "Land of the Silicon Men" had a fairly original premise even if it didn't do much with it. The coloring on "Diogenes' Deadly Lamp" was surprisingly experimental for a comic of this vintage with shading and lighting effects. Colorists were paid extremely little money. Even at the time Jim Shooter was initially working at Marvel, colorists only got fifty cents per page. |
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| An audiodub of nightmare flight https://youtu.be/jJFDWXX1H1I |
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| Publication | September 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Diogenes' Deadly Lamp (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Loathsome young parasite" Lex Markow steals Diogenes' lamp from an antique dealer, but the relic turns out to be cursed. When he tries to get rid of the lamp Markow hangs himself - like it was predicted. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Lex Markow |
| Notes | Robert Turner lists this as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970). |
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| Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries #11 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Richard Lowell had heard the legend of the old witch that haunted the abandoned mansion on the hill..."
On halloween night, Lowell takes a photo of the witch. No one believes him. |
| Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Richard Lowell |
| Notes | One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural. |
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| Comic Story | Nightmare Flight (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A young woman's fiancé returns, horribly scarred, months after he disappeared in a presumably fatal plane crash. He leads the woman into a death swamp, where she has to destroy an evil swamp queen to lay his tortured soul to rest. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries #12 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "The strange incident which is narrated below occurred in 1927, in the natural history museum of a large mid-western city..."
The curator gets killed by a "tribal death mask" falling from the wall. The mask had complained about being relocated from its home country earlier on. |
| Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural. |
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| Comic Story | Monster of the Moat (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A bypasser rescues a witch imprisoned by an evil sorcerer and marries her, but things turn out badly. Because the monster of the moat wants its revenge! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | Bells of Doom (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | George Sanderval dreams that he murders a couple in a cathedral. Waking up he has stabbed his wife to death in his sleep. Was he executing an age-old curse which had befallen his family line? |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Land of the Silicon Men (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A mysterious potion brought back from Africa turns men into glass ("silicon men"). When exploring the glass city, a party of reporters are captured. They turn on a siren. The silicon men break and shatter from the noise. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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