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Publication | Summer 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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Comic Story | The Widow's Lover (6 pages) |
Synopsis | A former executioner beheads those he feels need beheading, and is allowed to be his own executioner. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Vincent; Edouard Moulin; Garand; Destin; Dr. Rendu; Durand |
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Comic Story | The Tentacles of Death (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Dr. Mark Savant heads to Genero where the inhabitants are practicing human sacrifice. There he finds a horrible monster called an Octeel. |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dr. Mark Savant; Ventro; Mona; Mago Sartorus; Gaarlo |
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Text Story | Dr. Osborne's Secret Weapon (2 pages) |
Synopsis | A future scientist discovers a way to defeat the invading Sirians by disabling atomic energy. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: General Bollinger; Dr. Osborne |
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Comic Story | The Bloody Sword (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Robert MacCloran returns to his ancestral home to claim his birthright, but his evil uncle has other plans. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Robert MacLoran; Tandy (Robert's fiancee); Uncle Bruce; Duncan (servant) |
Notes | Ink lines in the hair of the main characters are the reason for the Giunta inking credit. Layouts and figures are definitely Dan Barry.
Inker addition of Sy Barry by Craig Delich, identified by Alberto Becattini in Alter Ego #130 (January 2015). |
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Comic Story | The Portrait of Death (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Gregory Harborough finds a painting of himself labelled "Portrait of Death" and is determined to find the artist. |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Gregory Harborough; Anton De Salvo |
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Comic Story | The Finger of Fate (1 page) |
Synopsis | Dr. Gladys Cross saves the finger of a holyman from being chopped off and gets a reward in return. |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Dewarzung; Dr. Gladys Cross |
Notes | Jerry Bails' Who's Who mentions that all of Kinstler's work at St. John Publications was reprints. |
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Comic Story | Graveyard in the Antarctic (1 page) |
Synopsis | G. Murray Levick, surgeon with Captain Robert Scott, finds a thousands of dead and dying seals in the Antarctic. |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: G. Murray Levick; Captain Robert Scott |
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