Issue: #3
Published: October-November 1951, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: Harry Harrison ? | Inks: Harry Harrison ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Dread Book of Betarin |
| Synopsis: |
Eugene Gordon dabbles with black magic and tries spells out of a "grimore", the black book of Betarin. After summoning some elemental creatures and dead people, Gordon encounters Betarin himself. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Edward Goldfarb (signed) | Inks: Bob Baer (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Ghosts From Mars |
| Synopsis: |
Tiny dead ghostlike Martian creatures are raining down on earth and cause chaos and destruction. Only scientist and "authority on the occult" Don Blant may help by contacting the ghost of his dead brother Allen. The latter tells him that the Martians shy away from human blood. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Vince Napoli | Inks: Vince Napoli | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense Science Fiction |
| Text Article (2 pages) |
The Occult Notebook of Dark Mysteries |
| Synopsis: |
Methods of divination, superstitions about were-animals, voodoo dolls and the evil eye. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Unwilling Witch |
| Synopsis: |
Bob and Jane are haunted by an old witch who was an ancestor of Jane's. Under the witch's bidding Jane turns into a were-cat and tries to kill her fiancé. But Bob gets help from a New Orleans "conjur woman". |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Bill Molno ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Bargain With a... Worm |
| Synopsis: |
Jim Thomas enters into a pact with a strange entity. Looking like a sack, the being offers Jim help in financial matters. In exchange the being can read Jim's thoughts. They start hassling over money and manners. Underestimating the thing's powers, Jim gets the short end of the stick. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Pierce Rice ? | Inks: Harry Harrison ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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