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| Spooky stories and great illustrations! Thank you for the post. |
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| Danny Nash in the 1st story reminds me of John Constantine. Great book! |
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| Great little comic, It's new to me. Could the toy add at the end be early Legos. |
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| Does that cover art remind anybody else of Jack Davis? |
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| I agree with the previous comments. This is a great comic book, spooky cover with great art work, interesting stories, if a little bizarre, creepy stuff! 10 out of 10. |
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| Horror's Little Acre Continuity: on pg. 2 the antagonist has a revolver, on pg. 3 it changes to an automatic! Fun story though! |
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| These stories remind me of the 1970s DC horror comics like HOUSE OF MYSTERY and GHOSTS. |
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| The poses and general imagery of the cover were similar to Jack Davis, but I always felt his work had more fine detail than this cover has.
As for the stories, Murder Mansion seemed like a cross between the typical haunted house/mansion/castle story and the "Monkey's Paw" short story of horror fame.
Drury's Dream was a well-executed 1-pager with nice period art.
Death Follows Orders was relatively predictable but it was a very enjoyable read.
Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne was an atmospheric 1-pager that served its role as filler.
The Chimes of Doom was predictable psychological horror.
Horror's Little Acre (pun on God's Little Acre?) was like a DC House of Mystery story and that's appropriate since Ruben Moreira eventually drew some House of Mystery stories. I thought this was well-done and enjoyable.
Phantom Warning was another predictable 1-pager. I liked a couple of the panels in terms of art.
Day of Reckoning was like an EC vengeance story but with a palette and art style more like that of a Romance comic.
I definitely enjoyed this experience. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Murder Mansion (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gangster couple hides in an abandoned mansion and conjures up the demon Teneshad to do their bidding. But there's a price to pay. Teneshad grows ever larger and takes them prisoner. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1130 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Danny Nash; Helen Nash; Carson |
| Notes | signed by Peppe on page 2 panel 1 |
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| Comic Story | Drury's Dream (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Man dreams about his death and really dies the next day. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1118 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Frank Drury; Old Ben the sexton |
| Notes | A slightly different version of this story is implied to be true and collected by Charles Wood and published as "The Sexton of Chilton Polden" in the 1936 "Lord Halifax's Ghost Book". |
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| Comic Story | Death Follows Orders (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A unit of Nazi soldiers is being unearthed from an underground cave and comes alive again. They won't rest until they have executed their Führer's orders. A brave French girl burns the papers and the soldiers turn to dust. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1136 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense; War | Characters: Jacques Martin; Pierrette; Kranze; Schultz; Bacher |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A pack of dogs predict the owner's death by running around Castle Eyne. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1116 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | The Chimes of Doom (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | After Charles Hanover has killed his rich aunt, he is driven insane by guilt and hears an unending chiming of her grandfather clock. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [2 spot illustrations] | Inks:? [2 spot illustrations] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Charles Hanover; Mrs. Swanson; Aunt Agatha |
| Notes | Irwin Shapiro, was a comics editor at Pines from 1949 to circa 1953, under Comics editor-in-chief, Joe Archibald. It is not known if he edited the horror comics. |
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| Comic Story | Horror's Little Acre (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Honeymooners discover a killer's hideout. Luckily for them, the ground they walk on is cursed with the memory of an old unavenged murder. Nature itself turns upon the killer. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1112 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Tom Jordan; Mayda Jordan; "Mugger" Crandall |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom Warning (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A phantom apparition warns a ship about imminent destruction. The first skipper heeds the warning, the second doesn't and goes down with the ship. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1099 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Captain Richard Brown; Captain Stander |
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| Comic Story | Day of Reckoning! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | After a fire accident, singer Rosalinde Gordon turns into a bird woman with the ability to communicate with birds. When her husband smothers her in her sleep, he is hunted by dozens of birds and driven to death. |
| Credits | Job #: B-1137 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Larry Gordon; Rosalinde Gordon; Virginia |
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