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| Wow! A 3D comic with no glasses -- and no 3D effect! Still, pretty imaginative storylines. |
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| Splash page is OUT OF THIS WORLD! |
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| Thanks for highlighting this, Evelyn - terrific read. Amazing pencils from the appropriately named horror-comic specialist Harry Lazarus and great stories. Was this the first ever 3D comic without glasses, I wonder? |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | TrueVision cover |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | TrueVision cover |
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| Advertisement | Come on, Buddy, Quit Being a Bag-of-Bones Weakling Like I Was (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for a mail order body-building course. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Jim Norman; George Jowett |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Dry Death (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Western gunman Larabee reappears in skeletal form and spreads death all over the valley. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Dobie; Amy; Larabee; Grandpa |
| Notes | TrueVision story |
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| Advertisement | Get Shop-Method Home Training (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | An ad for National Schools vocational training. |
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| Text Story | A Gift for Greta (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Greta has poisoned her husband and is visited by his avenging ghost. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Greta |
| Notes | first-person narrative |
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| Comic Story | The Man Who Lost His Face (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Plastic surgeon Dr. Camp develops a compound to make operations easier. The bones get soft and can be formed in any way. When Camp disfigures the gangster Mike Swayne, he's in for real trouble. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Steven Camp; Mike Swayne; Abby Mason |
| Notes | TrueVision story |
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| Advertisement | Start a Fine Business in Spare Time (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Fashion |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Editorial and letters page. Letters from C. Moore, Richard Summersgill, and Thomas A. Bishop. |
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| Comic Story | True Vampires of History! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Alledgedly true story of Alicia von Czerny, a vampire lady of the 15th century. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Alicia Von Czerny |
| Notes | TrueVision story |
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| Advertisement | Be Lucky in Love! |
| Featuring | Plaza Book Co. |
| Notes | A course on how to write love letters. |
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| Advertisement | Reversible Auto Seat Covers |
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| Comic Story | One Bright and Shining Day (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two escaped convicts discover a jungle wherein glass beings are living. In breaking, these beings spill a liquid which will turn anything it touches into glass also. A glass infection starts to spread around the island. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Treeby; Jackson |
| Notes | TrueVision story |
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| Advertisement | Draw the First Day (1 page) |
| Featuring | Norton Products |
| Notes | Ad for a drawing aid. |
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| Advertisement | Now you can fly a real jet plane! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for a miniature toy plane with a jet engine. |
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| Advertisement | I Will Train You at Home for Good Pay Jobs in Radio-Television (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for a correspondence course on radio and television. |
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| Advertisement | Fix Any Car in a Jiffy! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for car repair manual from Motor. |
| Featuring | Motor Book Dept. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
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