Issue: #23
Published: March 1954, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: M. J. Phillips
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. 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 |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
How Manuelo Died |
| Synopsis: |
Proud Spaniard Manuelo wants to be a bullfighter. A witch makes it happen, as long as Manuelo provides her with the blood of others. Getting tired of the deal, Manuelo murders the crone. She returns in the form of a fierce bull. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #45 |
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"In a stronghold in the cellar of the London museum is a mummy case that is permanently sealed and secluded..."
It stays closed because the mummy inside likes to attack museum guards who bear a resemblance to the mummy's murderer. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Oozing Horror |
| Synopsis: |
By accident, a scientist evolves the ability to merge with objects. As the police hunt him for the murder of his wife, he cannot develop an anti-serum in time - and merges forever with a tree. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #46 |
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"In 1873, two artists shared a studio in Paris. Martin was a sculptor of beautiful objects but he himself was ugly and deformed..."
With the power of witchcraft, he takes over the body of his handsome colleague Peter. Until the voodoo sculpture goes to pieces. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Long Arm of the Undead |
| Synopsis: |
Strange things happen in the Italian film industry: leading lady Maria Santori dies, but her jealous ghost keeps killing all who want to take her part. Finally Santori herself decides to finish the picture. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Dark Destiny |
| Synopsis: |
Gordi Collins brings home to England a Tibetan girl as his wife. He has been warned that she is destined to be a priestess for her tribe when she will turn 21. It so happens. Gordi dies and the savage woman vanishes. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Woman of a Thousand Faces |
| Synopsis: |
Somewhere in the African jungle, a 3,000-year-old sorceress rules like a tyrant and kills at will. Only a mighty witch doctor can help. Goro has to die first, then comes back as an all-powerful ghost with the ability to ban the forces of evil. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Louis Zansky | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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