Issue: #9
Published: March 1954, 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: Possible arrival date based on front cover stamp of indexer's copy.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Epitaph/Destiny's Double Deal |
| Synopsis: |
A giant cyclops prepares to attack a female scientist. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Dream! |
| Synopsis: |
A man is abducted and taken into the dank bowels of the city where he is tortured by a strange cult. He's branded with a symbol of a demonic bird the cult worships and is then offered to the bird monster who proceeds to slash and mutilate him. He wakes up the next day on the street thinking it was all a dream, not realizing that he has been disfigured. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
The Garcon |
| Synopsis: |
A couple go to a fancy new French restaurant. They get so impatient with the waiter (garcon) taking forever to bring them their meal, they resort to cannibalizing themselves. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Out of Focus |
| Synopsis: |
A couple of scientists working on a teleportation machine are met with tragic results. One scientist goes mad after he's teleported and needs to be shot, while the other becomes a blurred humanoid figure because the focusing lens wasn't set right. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Lee M. Pettroe |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Epitaph! |
| Synopsis: |
Edgar Clay is distraught that his faithful wife Miriam fell to her death from a cliff when he was away at work. Overcome by lonely grief, he visits the cemetery she is buried at to feel consoltation. As night falls, he sees the silent dead rising from their graves rewriting their epitaphs to reveal the truths about how they lived their lives. He's shocked to see Miriam write her epitaph revealing that she was faithless to her husband and fell off a cliff waiting for her lover! |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Edgar Clay Miriam Clay |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Destiny's Double Deal! |
| Synopsis: |
A writer named Greene submits his work to a publisher but finds that another writer named Verde is submitting the exact same work. Puzzled, the writer tracks down this mysterious other writer who is writing the same stories he is. He confronts Verde and shoots him, too late to realize that Verde is his doppelganger who shoots him simultaneously. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Henry Greene L.T. Bronson E. Verde |
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