Issue: #3
Published: July-August 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals 1953, page 171
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| Cover (1 page) |
The Red Spider |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Table Of Contents (1 page) |
Contents Page |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Red Spider |
| Synopsis: |
Damon Rankin, an entomologist, collects insects. While on vacation on a small Caribbean island, he comes across a fabled red spider. By killing it, he sets free evil powers. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Damon Rankin Ellie Rankin |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Thirteenth Clown |
| Synopsis: |
Jacob Rok forged his brother’s testament to take over his circus business. When star performer Marco the clown confronts Rok, he’s being strangled and buried in the woods. But the ghost of Marco keeps performing as the “Phantom Clown”, bringing Rok to justice and supporting new owner Linda. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Jacob Rok Alan Frane Marco Linda Frane |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Better Off Dead |
| Synopsis: |
Boxing champ Georgie Price gets the jitters when dead girl friend Anne starts to haunt him. She distracts him during a prize fight. Georgie dies of brain concussion and Anne leads him away to the afterworld. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Georgie Price Anne Wilson Jake Mellon |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Ghost's Revenge |
| Synopsis: |
James Kendall is a professional ‘ghost-breaker,’ relieving troubled persons of their fear of spooks. He is also the man who embezzled his ward’s fortune. So Kendall throws young Anne off a cliff to her death and is haunted thereafter by her ghost. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
James Kendall Anne Allen |
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