Issue: #8
Published: November 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Stanley Morse
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior, Glossy Covers Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: Tony Mortellaro ? | Inks: Tony Mortellaro ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Rat-Trap |
| Synopsis: |
A prisoner feeds a rat visiting him in his jail cell. He keeps feeding the animal, because the fatter the rat gets, the more the prison bars are spreading - offering him a chance to escape. One day the prisoner is given no food - and the rat feeds on him. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Tony Mortellaro (signed) | Inks: Tony Mortellaro (signed) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Charlie Fat Rat |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Man with the Green Thumb |
| Synopsis: |
Dr. Dana develops a formula which gives him plant-like capabilities. His newly acquired invulnerability provokes the envy of mobster Tony Drago. Drago tries to take the formula form Dana but is killed. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ed Robbins | Inks: Ed Robbins |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dr. Dana Tony Drago |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Cycle! |
| Synopsis: |
A pearl is the catalyst for murder, over and over, as greedy men fall victim like dominoes to its allure. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Tony Mortellaro (signed) | Inks: Tony Mortellaro (signed) |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Pago |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Worm Turns |
| Synopsis: |
A giant worm cracks through the earth's crust. After being bombarded with an atomic bomb, he splits in many parts and continues to attack. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
They Saw the Light |
| Synopsis: |
Arctic explorers find a mountain out of uranium ore, but the radiation changes them into monstrous fiends. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Frank Frollo ? | Inks: Frank Frollo ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
Sarcophagus of Sandola! |
| Synopsis: |
Tourist Robert Morgan travels through Egypt and is lost in a sand storm. He finds refuge in a cave where the noble woman Sandola protects him from a snake and leads him back to the city. Sandola disappears all of a sudden, and Morgan learns that he must have met the ghost of an ancient queen, dead for two thousand years. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Hy Fleishman (signed) | Inks: Hy Fleishman (signed) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Robert Morgan Queen Sandola Ahmond |
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