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| Love the Chess game with Death. |
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| Publication | May 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (host) |
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| Comic Story | The Man who Defeated Death! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chess master Roger Capar dies of heart failure and meets Death in the afterworld, who enjoys playing chess with him. When the doctors bring Capar back to life, Death continues visiting him to play for information about imminent deaths. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host); Roger Capar; Death; Ellen Capar; Dr. Rine |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Comic Story | Dripping Terror (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Enoch Claughton kills the native girl Mauna for a bag of pearls. He is haunted by her ghostly apparition for decades and finally claimed to join her in death. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host); Captain Enoch Claughton; Mauna; Joseph Claughton |
| Notes | Anthony Cataldo is rumored to have worked for Fawcett’s "Whiz Comics" in the early 50s (drawing the “Golden Arrow” feature). Also a bottle on the table in the splash wears the label “AC”. |
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| Comic Story | Last Express! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Train conductor Fred Ormesbee quits his job because he's made an offer he can't refuse - riding the Train of the Dead to Hades. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host); Fred Ormesbee; Death |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Text Story | Tempest in a Teapot (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ephraim Scroon, a recluse on a hill, uses black magic to create thunderstorms and drive away the townspeople who want to lynch him. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Ephraim Scroon; Rod Richards' Eli Thompkins |
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| Comic Story | The Walking Cadaver (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hiram Gehr has built a machine to transmigrate souls of old men into the bodies of deceased young men. They pay him for this service to feel young again. When Gehr gets greedy, his customers protest and things get out of hand. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Hiram Gehr; Leach; Hawk Quentin; The Lords of Judgement |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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