Issue: #27
Published: July 1954, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Bill |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Haunt of the Howling Head |
| Synopsis: |
Kip Hunter has been to Borneo and brought along a box full of preservered severed heads. Being responsible for the deaths of these people, the heads come to life and hunt Hunter down. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Kip Hunter Mike |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of the Supernatural # 53 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Synopsis: |
A body of a man murdered in a wine cellar pops up on the wedding night of his killer. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Louise |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Fangs of the Fiend |
| Synopsis: |
A dentist extracts all his rival's teeth and replaces them with dog's teeth - turning the man into a werewolf. After going on a rampage, the beast is caught and the teeth are removed again, rendering the man harmless. Only now the doctor got bitten and turns werewolf. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Arduino Felix Eloise |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of the Supernatural # 54 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Synopsis: |
One night Vagas opens the grave of a strange man and gets robbed himself - of his soul, by the devil. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Pietro Vagas The Devil |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Catastrophe, Inc. |
| Synopsis: |
Suicidal newspaper reporter Elliot Burke has written his own obituary already when he meets a man with a magic mirror foretelling the future. Burke is able to get some scoops, but he gets careless and that obituary comes in handy after all. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Elliot Burke Rees Bernard Lumin Hobart Senator Scott Mrs. Wilson |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Claws Rip Deep |
| Synopsis: |
Waiting at a train station in Hungary, Bill Hansford becomes acquainted with a witch. Anna Marie is there to take her revenge on a rival witch, executed by her black cat Dushko. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Bill Hansford Anna Marie Dushko Alichia |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch |
| Synopsis: |
A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky | Inks: Vince Alascia |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Simon Lorch Ted Watkins Anne Lorch Jim Bob |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
U. S. Defense Bonds |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Reginald R. Myers |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
More-Wate Co. |
| Credits: |
Letters: ?; typeset |
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