Issue: #39
Published: January 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Issue copyright by Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Tale of Terror |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ken Bald | Inks: Ken Bald |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
50 Cowboys & Indians; 41 Circus Toys |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ?; ? (photo) | Inks: ?; ? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Tale of Terror |
| Synopsis: |
Satan himself sells a story to a comic book editor and demons threaten the creative staff until the printing plates are destroyed, and the demons along with them. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lin Streeter | Inks: Lin Streeter |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Satan Scotty Georgette Lou Unnamed Editor Demons |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Boys, Get That Real R.R. Engineer's Thrill |
| Featuring: |
Lionel Trains |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Behind The Door! |
| Synopsis: |
Joan keeps repeating a horrific experience of entering a house with a monster lurking within, unable to tell where a daydream ends and reality begins. |
| Credits: |
Script: Rosie Ferrero | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Joan |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Apollo's Fatal Gloves |
| Synopsis: |
Glen Sanders finds a pair of magic gloves but they are stolen by someone who uses them to murder, until Apollo creates a second pair so Glen can defeat the murderer. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Al Camy | Inks: George Wilhelms |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Glen Sanders Apollo Ginny Unnamed Janitor |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
It's New... |
| Featuring: |
Skeleton Hand |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Hurry! Get Your Own Gold Lettered Personalized Wallet! |
| Featuring: |
Smith Brothers Cough Drops |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Ghostly Flag-Raising |
| Featuring: |
Uncanny Mysteries |
| Synopsis: |
Relates that some Army personnel have seen an apparently ghostly recreation of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima on the anniversary of the actual event. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Pete Riss? | Inks: Pete Riss? |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Hungry Horde |
| Synopsis: |
After a theft of a large amount of blood plasma, Mark and Martha are called to investigate. They discover the Master Vampire using the plasma to create an army but destroy the army and the Master. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jon Blummer | Inks: Jon Blummer |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Mark Martha Mr. Mason Master Vampire |
| Letters Page (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Let's Talk It Over! |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Skeleton's Secret! |
| Synopsis: |
To forestall a tough exam, Frank Moore steals a skeleton from a classroom, but the skeleton of the professor's wife has a plan of revenge against her murdering husband. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Charles Nicholas |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Elwood Barker Frank Moore Len Stella Barker (as Skeleton) |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
The Evil Eye |
| Synopsis: |
Mike escapes from prison and kills an old woman but she has placed a curse on him and he goes mad before he is recaptured. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: King Ward | Inks: King Ward |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Mike Benson Hester |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Giant Collection of 100 Games $1 |
| Featuring: |
Seagee Co. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Announcing the New Daisy Defender |
| Featuring: |
Daisy Defender |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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