Issue: #7
Published: January 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 115
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Katz | Inks: Jack Katz |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Hades Highway |
| Synopsis: |
Road worker Carter murders his colleague and buries him using a steamroller. He is haunted by a tar-covered black ghost and slowly drifts into insanity. When Carter kills another person, he is finally arrested and regains his peace of mind. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Katz (signed) | Inks: Jack Katz (signed) | Letters: John Duffy |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Cloak of a Corpse |
| Synopsis: |
When a man steals a hanged man's robe, the dead comes to visit him and retrieves his cloak. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Celardo ? | Inks: John Celardo ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Devil in Massachusetts |
| Synopsis: |
An odd thunderstorm spares the house of a woman writing a book about witchcraft. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Plant of Doom |
| Synopsis: |
Explorer kills his rival and breeds a flesh-eating plant out of his remains. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mo Marcus (signed) | Inks: Rocco Mastroserio (signed) | Letters: John Duffy |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
No Trespassing |
| Synopsis: |
A boy spends a night in a haunted house encountering the ghosts of former inhabitants. |
| Credits: |
Script: H. Hendryx | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Fangs of Fate! |
| Synopsis: |
Dr. Kissack runs a snake farm. When threatened by a neighbor, Kissack kills the man and disposes of the body as snake fodder. His monster python grows ever large on this special diet. Rampaging through town, the beast gets killed and Kissack meets his fate. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Rocco Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed) | Inks: Rocco Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed) | Letters: Ed Hamilton |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
General Moulton and the Devil |
| Synopsis: |
Moulton bargains with Satan to make him a rich man. When he gets too greedy, the devil withdraws the fortune but insists on the general's soul. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ross Andru | Inks: Ross Andru | Letters: Herb Field |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Ugliest Man in the World |
| Synopsis: |
Actor Ron Carney is challenged to come up with a horrible make-up for his next horror movie. A mysterious stranger introduces him to the sect of "The Ugly Ones" and deforms his face in a cruel way. After having wrapped up the movie successfully, Carney wants to dispose of his ugly face, but is stuck with it. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Katz (signed) | Inks: Jack Katz (signed) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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