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| Some lovely art by George Evans and Bob Powell, ruined by some of the lousiest coloring in the business. |
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| Crash is absolutely right – the pencils are good but the colourist is smack in your face (apart from anything else of course, the distressed woman in a dress, front cover, should surely be blonde?)
A sucker for slithering swamp monsters, I did enjoy Skontong Swamp with its electrifying climax (heh! heh!). Fanciful Hawkins has some fancy footwork but for a real thriller, you have to read The Last Man where a cast of carny bums are faced with a killer who keeps hammering away at them.
Here’s a passing thought – all the matter that we know makes up only 5% of the known universe – dark energy and dark matter make up the rest. What creatures / beings / spirits / conscious forms exist in that remaining 95% - and what might be their motivation? Makes you think, dunnit? |
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| The last story's script is credited to "Earl Hammer Jr.," and I wonder if this is a typo for "Earl HamNer Jr.," best-known for creating the '70s TV series "The Waltons," but who was also a novelist and scriptwriter (including "The Twilight Zone"). The dates are feasible -- his first novel was published in 1953. The GCD lists only this story credit for "Hammer" and none for "Hamner". |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp! (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The gangster Goldie Ricon escapes from death row into the Skontong swamplands. There he gets bitten by a zombie and from then on is haunted by terrible zombie encounters. Driven almost insane, Goldie returns to death row - and to Skontong swamp. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Goldie Ricon |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Country boy Hawkins comes to death in a fight with rival bully Withers. The victim's oversized shoes appear as ghostly accessoires and chase the evildoer around. He will die the same way poor Hawkins went. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | Horror at Midnight (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Wiggins, new in town, is called to the home of the recluse Cadden. There the devil joins the two men, demanding a soul. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (header illustration) | Inks:? (header illustration) | Colors:? (header illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Last Man (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A small carnival pitches it's tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Eddie (death); Mike (death); Joe (death); Pete (death) |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Unknown World (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promo ad for Unknown World (Fawcett, 1952 Series) featuring an illustration of a decaying corpse coming from behind an opening door on a pale blue background. |
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