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| "Beauty and the Beast!" ,good stuff-- just a enough Wolverton wackiness to get you going. |
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| Publication | May 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils: Bernard Baily (signed) | Inks: Bernard Baily (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Beauty and the Beast! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dress designer Van Shnapier is ugly beyond description. He builds himself a robot woman to model his designs. Mabel obeys his every wish, but in a fit of fury Shnapier hits her - thus damaging the model and making her run berserk. |
| Credits | Pencils: Basil Wolverton (partly) | Inks: Basil Wolverton (partly) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | "o.t. ""Robot Woman""; CAP from WEIRD MYSTERIES #2"
Story has been heavily reworked, panels rearranged and other artwork has been added. |
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| Comic Story | The Marriage of Life and Death! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young couple Nick and Dora are in love. Nick hopes to lift a family curse by marrying Dora, for he committed a heinous crime in a former life. But something goes wrong at the wedding. |
| Credits | Pencils: Milt Knoff (signed) | Inks: Milt Knoff (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | First Come, First Served! (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man visits a contract killer to plan the murder of his unfaithful wife. The killer, however, has made a contract with the wife first. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Comic Story | Yakity-Yakity-Yak! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Inventor Larry ecapes into the cave men past from his nagging wife. There he mates with a cave girl and is confronted with more nagging. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jon Smalle | Inks: Mike Esposito? |
| Content | Genre: Satire-parody; Science Fiction |
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| Letters Page | Mr. Mystery's Morgue (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Review of issue #9 by "Bobby Stewart". Could this be fanzine publisher Bhob Stewart?
Update: according to this obituary (http://file770.com/?p=16117) Stewart was from Kirbyville, Texas, so this letter was apparently written by him. He would have been 16 years old (born 1937, died 2014). |
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| Comic Story | The Little Monster (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Orphan child Gloria lives with her hateful aunt Harriet. Gloria likes animals in the house, which the aunt strictly forbids. Harriet confronts Gloria's newest pet - with deadly consequences. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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