Issue: #5
Published: February-March 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1951, page 201, registration number B332954.
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| Comic Story (6 pages) |
I Painted Only Terror! |
| Synopsis: |
Paul Beaumont is a success with his paintings of human terror. Feeling exhausted he goes to work on one final masterpiece. He scares a model to death and paints the ultimate terror. The ghost of the woman, however, urges him on to work until he collapses. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Paul Beaumont Officer Clancy |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Master of the Cats! |
| Synopsis: |
The couple of John and Alice gets lost in the countryside. They come to the home of Senor Gato who lives in the company of cats. Or rather cat-beings able to take on human form as well. Alice is transformed into a cat and John accidentally kills her. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
John Wingate Alice Wingate Senor Gato |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Cellar of Blood |
| Synopsis: |
It's been rumored that the evil Nazi Heinrich Himmler committed suicide just before he was captured. People however believed it was just a double and the real Himmler killed himself somewhere else. A G.I finds his body in the remains of Castle Aldenweir, where his disfigured monstrous ghost haunts the castle's cellar for all the evil he had committed in life. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Heinrich Himmler |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Knife of Jack the Ripper! |
| Synopsis: |
A young carpenter comes into possession of Jack the Ripper’s knife and is haunted by visions of murder. He goes on a killing spree, unable to stop or get rid of the murderous weapon as he slowly transforms into Jack the Ripper himself. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Jack The Ripper |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Tenant of the Lost Pyramid |
| Featuring: |
The Story Behind the Cover |
| Synopsis: |
An Egyptologist named Dr. Vetry, his daughter Vera, and his assistant find a hidden pyramid in an Egyptian desert valley. Looking into the story of eternal life, they open the tomb and release a 5,000 year old mummified priest who was condemned to eternal life by Anubis himself. When the mummy attacks Vera, the assistant kills it with his pickaxe causing it to crumble into dust. The three leave the valley but Dr. Vetry was able to procure a parchment containing the formula for an elixir for eternal life. Will he use it? |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Vetry Vera Vetry |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Operation Horror! |
| Synopsis: |
Elderly Dr. Gordell drinks a potion which transforms him into strong, primeval cave-man. As such he roams around and murders innocent passers-by. Gordell’s daughter and his assistant Roger track him down and get him engaged in a death-match with a circus gorilla where they kill each other. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Gordell Roger Dorne Diane Gordell |
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