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Publication | April 1954 | 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 | When Icy Fingers Clutch (6.66 pages) |
Synopsis | In northern Africa, the beggar Mejm shanghais men to do slave work for the building of a railroad. A mystic glove robbed from a sorcerer helps him to the dirty work. The glove is cursed and the sorcerer returns with a vengeance. |
Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Bottom of last page has statement of ownership signed by A. A. Wyn, identifying Wyn as publisher and business manager and M. J. Phillips as editor. |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural # 51 (1 page) |
Synopsis | "When man searches into the deepest secrets of nature, he often comes face to face with problems no mortal can cope with..."
German scientist meddles with a growth serum to revive mortally wounded soldiers, but breeds a gigantic rat that lacerates him. |
Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | Death Writes the Horoscope (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The gangster Vince Yorga learns to command the "demons of the zodiac" and abuses this ability to amass riches. The supernatural powers disapprove of Yorga's methods and claim his soul for all eternity. |
Credits | Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Louis Zansky | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural # 52 (1 page) |
Synopsis | "Sir Leland Ames was a man of wealth and position in England at the turn of the century. But his fame came from a strange, awesome source..."
Sir Ames operates his own private torture chamber where he tantalizes his servants. One night, he himself gets to be the victim. |
Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | The Secret Fear of Thurman Renauld (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Thurman Renauld is afraid of the full moon. When his wife goes missing, he turns to psychiatrist Dr. Wingard for help. In daily therapy sessions Renauld unearths a dark secret and learns to accept that - he is a vampire. |
Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Text Story | The Color of Blood (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Count Ferrara has killed a man whose son played in his rose bushes. At a party, a strange magician appears and conjures up a living bull who tramples the count to death in those rose bushes. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | Me - Beast! (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Jay Harlow comes into possession of a magic pair of spectacles. Looking through them, Harlow recognizes the beast in every man. He sees pigs and vultures, dogs and donkeys. When the glasses are turned on Harlow himself, he stands revealed as a gorilla. |
Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Sy Grudko? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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