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| Publication | October 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
| Notes | Cover depicts splash from last story "The Insider". |
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| Cover | Nightmare!! |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Cover depicts splash from last story "The Insider". |
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| Comic Story | Swamp Spirit (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the "remote bayous of southern Louisiana" they tamper with a serum for human longevity, accidentally releasing an evil spirit. When the spirit goes for the girl, it gets destroyed. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Vengeful Phantom (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Many years after his murder, the ghost of the victim returns to kill the wrongdoer. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Mummy (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The mummy of king Ramzu comes alive and wants only one thing: to be joined in death with his beloved Oaana. He abducts the mummy of his beloved queen, flees into the Egyptian jungle (?), fights off lions and a pesty police officer. In the end he finds his peace, witnessed by a girl reporter. "Can't print the story... who would believe me?". |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | The Ghost Who Cried (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Family moves into house haunted by spirit of little girl. The father sets her free. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Picture a Nightmare (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A night guard at the museum is dragged into a painting presenting a door into a dimension of evil. He can fight his way back to the real world and manages to destroy the picture. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Maniac (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Hit-and-run-driver is hunted down by the police. |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Comic Story | The Insider (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Guy Maudrid, a writer of supernatural stories is summoned before a "grotesque ogre personifying the forces of evil". The writer is asked to hand over his manuscript because therein lies the secret of destroying all evil. Maudrid applies his knowledge and evil is destroyed. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Guy Maudrid; un-named evil spirit (villain, death); Htard (villain, the spirit's servant, death) |
| Notes | Splash page is same as cover art. ? added to writer credit per Roy Thomas in Alter Ego #117 (June 2013).
Jay Disbrow wrote and drew this story and it's essentially a remake of a story he did one month earlier called "Dwellers in Darkness" for Beware #11. |
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