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| Enjoyed the lead off story about the phoenix quite a bit! lovely scan of a delightfully moldy old horror book! Many thanks! |
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| Publication | January 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Original art for cover auctioned on eBay was signed by Gene Colan. |
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| Credits | Pencils: Gene Colan | Inks: Gene Colan | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Original art for cover auctioned on eBay was signed by Gene Colan. |
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| Comic Story | Curse of the Fire-Bird (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | When "ambitious" Lydia kills her husband with the stroke of a mace to inherit his fortunes, he changes into a phoenix and hunts her down to a fiery end. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lin Streeter | Inks: Lin Streeter | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Lydia; Professor Burnett Firey; Juan Dufue |
| Notes | Cover story. |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #35 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "The people in a small town of France still tell the story of a little hunchback..."
When the hunchback witnesses a robbery, he gets stabbed to death by the criminal. But his ghost rings the church bells and alarms the town. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | Wanted: Ghost Writer (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Newspaper reporter Jerry Vincent takes on a night job for a creepy man with a hood sitting in a room full of torture instruments. Vincent writes story beginnings about actual events. Mr. Todt writes the endings. Todt is Death. And everything Vincent writes about turns into a catastrophe. Finally Vincent too has to pay with his life. |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko (signed) | Inks: Sy Grudko (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | There is a hidden signature on the newspaper in the splash: "Sy Grud..." |
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| Comic Story | The Hand of the Ancient Evil! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick Adams comes upon a Chinese box containing a withered hand fulfilling wishes. When Adams gets careless in his wording ("I wish I had never laid eyes upon you" / "I wish that I were dead"), the hand first tears out his eyes and then strangles him. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | And yet another variation of the horror classic "The Monkey's Paw" by William Wymark Jacobs (published in 1902). |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #36 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Late in the nineteenth century, a strange death was recorded in the files of the London police..."
British explorer is hit by mummy's curse for pillaging an Egyptian tomb. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | A Sporting Chance (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a German castle, three hunters meet a vampire and agree upon a game of life and death. The vampire, Baron von Fledermaus, hunts down and kills the first two, but the third can defeat the vampire - because he is a ghoul. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Scourge of the Undead (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Convicted killer Jules Scholler dies in the electric chair, but lives on as a zombie - kept alive by "the evil spirit of those who fear death", a death-like figure in a fancy hat. Mentoring him along the way, Scholler goes on a crime spree. When his body starts to rot, the spirit commands him to dispose of himself in the city garbage dump. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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