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| Notes | Purple Claw 02 is mostly reprinted in Toby's "Tales of Horror #10" also on the site. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page | |||
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| Name | Purple Claw 3 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 127. |
| Cover | The Giant from the Tomb / 1 page |
| Pencils | Ben Brown |
| Inks | David Gantz |
| Comic Story | The Giant From the Tomb / The Purple Claw (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a small city-state in central Europe, Dr. Weir has to contend with the evil dictator Horak and the undead giant Golga. |
| Characters | Horak (villain, death); Golga (villain, death); Marla; Karl |
| Pencils | Ben Brown |
| Inks | David Gantz |
| First Line | Shot down over Africa during the war, young Dr. Jonathan Weir saved a tribe of natives from a horrible plague. |
| Comic Story | Death Flower / The Purple Claw (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Purple Claw encounters a creepy old man that turns into a huge "Death Flower" at night that lives in the Florida swamps and feasts on human flesh. |
| Characters | Sam Barney; "Trigger" Martex; Walter Parker; Marge Parker |
| Pencils | Ben Brown (signed) |
| Inks | David Gantz (signed) |
| First Line | When the sun goes down in the steaming Florida Everglades, strange things begin to happen. |
| Cartoon | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Sparks of Life |
| Script | Charles Kuhn |
| Pencils | Charles Kuhn |
| Inks | Charles Kuhn |
| First Line | Favorite Day-Dreams - to sleep once more in the old tin-roofed bedroom during a storm. |
| Notes | 6 single panel cartoons: "Favorite Day-Dreams," "Folks We Have Envied," et al. Reprinted from newspaper comics. |
| Comic Story | The Final Horror / The Purple Claw (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Alcoholic scientist Bill Bartel enters a horrible dream world every night. Dr. Weir uses the Purple Claw to enter that dream world. He gets Bartel to fight the final horror - an incarnation of the evil side of Bartel. |
| Characters | Bill Bartel |
| Pencils | Ben Brown (signed) |
| Inks | David Gantz (signed) |
| First Line | The Purple Claw will save you, Bill! |
| Notes | The next non-reprint appearance was in AC's FemForce: Out of the Asylum (1987 series) #1. |
| Text Story | Just What the Doctor Ordered (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | His face was white as the sheet he lay on, but in his neck and forehead the veins stood out taut and purple. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |

