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| Someone really pushed the creators on this one - surprisingly original stories - giant snakes, sacrificial altars (including blonde in red dress), miniature armies and movie actors that step into real life - all in day's work for Tales of Horror
Having been a big General Jumbo fan as a kid, I confess The Toy Army was my favourite but Trespasser from Beyond was a very close second. |
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| I love the expressionistic coloring on page 7. Big blocks of color with no relevance to the content of the image. Big red and purple faces! |
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| 'The Big Snake' is a mash-up of HG Wells 'Food of the Gods' and 'King Kong' but no female lead. A perfect set-up for a movie.
Seriously surprised that nobody has made it yet! |
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| Publication | November 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Devil's Clock! |
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| Comic Story | The Big Snake! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A scientist has created a serum when, mixed with blood and injected into a creature, allows that creature to grow as long as the scientist wishes, but also allows the injected animal to take on the characteristics of the animal from which the blood was taken. After a huge snake swallows the scientist, it grows into an even bigger giant guided by human intelligence that attacks New York City. |
| Featuring | The Big Snake |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: John Reid (member of the Scientific Research League); Paul Vale (villain, scientist) |
| Notes | This story is promoted on the top of the cover.
The scientist also creates a giant rat and a giant rabbit that need to be destroyed by representatives of the Scientific Research League because of the danger associated with the serum.
The giant snake climbs up the Empire State Building like King Kong. |
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| Comic Story | The Devil's Clock (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A betrothed couple purchases a strange antique clock. When the husband winds the clock backwards, he's sent thousands of years into the past and encounters a cult of demonic pagans who try to force him to sacrifice his wife in the present day, so time can loop with his sacrifice into the past thus allowing them to enter the modern world. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Don Simmons; Betty Stevens; Jorak |
| Notes | Cover story. |
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| Comic Story | The Toy Army (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A toy maker orders a special doll from Egypt wrapped in bandages. After he unwraps it, it turns out to be Im-Ho-Tep, an Egyptian high priest who was shrunk down into doll form and mummified as punishment for his evil. Im-Ho-Tep possesses the toy maker's toy soldiers and plans on using them to conquer the world, until the toymaker defeats him by wrapping him in bandages again. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Trespasser from Beyond (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The ghost of an actress who committed suicide during filming of a movie, haunts the set of the film's remake. It turns out the actress in the remake had murdered her and her ghost came looking for revenge. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Synopsis | Prospector Pete and his friend are running late going home. Pete's friend suggests they go through a nearby ghost town for a shortcut, but Pete is afraid of ghosts and opts to go the long way home not realizing the path is full of scary wild animals. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Humor strip. |
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