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| Publication | July 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Red Shadow of Abaddon (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Under the alias of "Mr. Abaddon", Satan lures a young ballerina into his pact. She gets twenty years of fame, he gets her soul and has her dance for the hordes of the dead. All her attempts to break the contract fail. |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #41 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In the late nineteenth century, two french archeologists chanced upon a long-lost tomb deep in the Sahara desert..."
The men find Queen Rami and her recipe for a will-controlling perfume. They mix a potion and go mad. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Werewolf Blood on my Hands (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | London file clerk Gregory Cooper wants to be a Scotland Yard detective. He helps the police stalking a rampant south african werewolf by transforming himself into one. In a duel of the werewolves Cooper is overcome by bloodlust and shot dead by detectives. |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Beck | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #42 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In the town of Regensburg, Germany, there stands a stone bridge which spans the Danube river..."
A witch is burned in 1764, but a statue of her reappears atop the bridge. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | Graveyard of Ghost Ships (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | American adventurer Gil Morgan comes across a pirate ship in the Sargasso sea, inhabited by ghost pirates under female captain Anne Bonny. Anne falls in love with the handsome stranger. They go sink some ships together. When Morgan tries to run away with the loot, he is killed by Captain Anne. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: Lou Cameron? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Comparing Lou's signature to the title makes me believe that he was his own letterer.
We are talking about the title splash here, captions and balloons are Leroy lettered.
Cover story. Although the story features ghost pirates rather than merpeople. |
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| Text Story | Horror Masquerade (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chauffeur murders his employer and takes on his identity. He puts on make-up to look exactly like the old man. One day the make-up won't come off. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | If Flesh Could Crawl... (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The unsuccessful horror writer Darrel Thomas wants to commit suicide, but is hindered by the apparition of his evil fictitous creations. Fulfilling his every wish, Thomas gets to be rich and famous. Annoyed by their enduring presence, Thomas commits suicide, destroying his demons with him. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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