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
Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1954 Periodicals, page 21.
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Bill |
| 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. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Kip Hunter Mike |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of the Supernatural # 53 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Bill Hansford Anna Marie Dushko Alichia |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch |
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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. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Simon Lorch Ted Watkins Anne Lorch Jim Bob |
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