Digital Comic Museum - Beyond 018 -JVJ


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Issue: #18
Published: January 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: Gene Colan \| Inks: Gene Colan \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Curse of the Fire-Bird
Synopsis:	When "ambitious" Lydia kills her husband with the stroke of a mace to inherit his fortunes, he changes into a phoenix and hunts her down to a fiery end.
Credits:	Pencils: Lin Streeter \| Inks: Lin Streeter \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Lydia Professor Burnett Firey Juan Dufue

Comic Story (1 page)	True Tales of the Supernatural #35
Featuring:	True Tales of the Supernatural
Synopsis:	"The people in a small town of France still tell the story of a little hunchback..." When the hunchback witnesses a robbery, he gets stabbed to death by the criminal. But his ghost rings the church bells and alarms the town.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Fantasy

Comic Story (7 pages)	Wanted: Ghost Writer
Synopsis:	Newspaper reporter Jerry Vincent takes on a night job for a creepy man with a hood sitting in a room full of torture instruments. Vincent writes story beginnings about actual events. Mr. Todt writes the endings. Todt is Death. And everything Vincent writes about turns into a catastrophe. Finally Vincent too has to pay with his life.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko (signed) \| Inks: Sy Grudko (signed) \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Hand of the Ancient Evil!
Synopsis:	Dick Adams comes upon a Chinese box containing a withered hand fulfilling wishes. When Adams gets careless in his wording ("I wish I had never laid eyes upon you" / "I wish that I were dead"), the hand first tears out his eyes and then strangles him.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	True Tales of the Supernatural #36
Featuring:	True Tales of the Supernatural
Synopsis:	"Late in the nineteenth century, a strange death was recorded in the files of the London police..." British explorer is hit by mummy's curse for pillaging an Egyptian tomb.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Text Story (2 pages)	A Sporting Chance
Synopsis:	In a German castle, three hunters meet a vampire and agree upon a game of life and death. The vampire, Baron von Fledermaus, hunts down and kills the first two, but the third can defeat the vampire - because he is a ghoul.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Scourge of the Undead
Synopsis:	Convicted killer Jules Scholler dies in the electric chair, but lives on as a zombie - kept alive by "the evil spirit of those who fear death", a death-like figure in a fancy hat. Mentoring him along the way, Scholler goes on a crime spree. When his body starts to rot, the spirit commands him to dispose of himself in the city garbage dump.
Credits:	Pencils: Jim McLaughlin \| Inks: Jim McLaughlin \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

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