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| " The Lonely One" IMHO the best story here. |
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| Publication | January 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host) |
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| Comic Story | The Horrors of the 13th Stroke (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Police inspector Hiram Castle comes into possession of a magic clock which transports people to another dimension on its thirteenth stroke. Behind a gateway of horrors fiendish ghouls are waiting for human victims. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host) |
| Notes | Previous indexer suggested Bernard Baily ? for art credits. |
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| Comic Story | The Lonely One! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two polar explorers have to spend months alone in an igloo. One of them goes insane. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host) |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Writer credits by Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Comic Story | The Ghoul at Eldritch Manor! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ellison Eldritch inherits Eldritch manor and takes care of the family mausoleum. He is shocked to find that a ghoul keeps visiting the place. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Jokerface] | Inks:? [as Jokerface] |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host); Ellison Eldritch |
| Notes | Unknown artist from Fawcett's early 1950s. Drew the “Ibis the Invincible” feature in the last issues of WHIZ COMICS(#139 - #155). Tillmann Courth spotted him in these books and will keep looking.
"Jokerface" keeps drawing minor characters with cartoony elongated faces.
Writer credits by Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Text Story | Gray Matter (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The chemist Branum Todd develops a fluid which transports his will into other people. Something goes wrong when Todd experiments with it. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | small illustration |
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| Comic Story | Return of the Dead! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gypsy woman Cantina is a powerful medium who can not only contact the deceased, but bring them back into life. When gangster boss Britt is revived, Cantina's lover Jan protests and springs into law-abiding action. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Mummy (Horror-Host) |
| Notes | Previous indexer suggested George Evans ? for art credits.
It is Bob McCarty, a Evans-lookalike who also worked at Fawcett in these years. |
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