Issue: #16
Published: October 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
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| Cover (1 page) |
The Chessboard of Humanity |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Chilly [as Chilly] | Inks: John Chilly [as Chilly] | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Ghost on Television |
| Synopsis: |
A murderous couple is haunted by their victim, which appears on their television screen. A broadcast from death in person announces their doom. The victim steps out of the TV and takes his revenge! |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Frank Giusto | Inks: Frank Giusto | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of the Supernatural #31 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Synopsis: |
"In the annals of the supernatural, no case was more baffling than the one that occurred in the famous penal institution known as Devil's Island..."
Two escaped convicts meet a third one in the jungle who wants to help them. When they stab the unwanted partner, he turns into a skeleton. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Vault of the Winged Spectres |
| Synopsis: |
Two American engineers discover ancient Egyptian tombs and get in a fight with living mummies. Resurrected queen Neferti helps them escape, because she didn’t wish to be resurrected in the first place. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lin Streeter | Inks: Lin Streeter | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Curse of the Midnight Piper |
| Synopsis: |
When a tomb in a Scottish castle is opened, ghostly clan wars flare up again. The army of ghosts can be repelled with fire. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Cameron | Inks: Lou Cameron | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of the Supernatural #32 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Synopsis: |
"In 1933, Richard Dore, a young American archeologist, was digging through some Aztec ruins in Central Mexico..."
In an underground torture chamber Dore finds a fountain from which still spurts human blood. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Uninvited Guest |
| Synopsis: |
In Barcelona a crypt is opened and the ghost of Benedicto wakened. Benedicto stalks Don Lopez, the descendant of the man who killed him for gold. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
They Burned a Witch |
| Synopsis: |
On the English coast, a witch trapped in the body of a cat, can escape her confinement. She takes control of another woman’s body and starts her witching work again. She doesn’t rest until she has taken revenge on all of those who caused her predicament. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Dick Beck | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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