Issue: #8
Published: April 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: A. A. Wyn (managing editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Haunts of Devil's Lake |
| Synopsis: |
In the Canadian wilds, Peter Jordan encounters an indian princess and her underground zombie tribe. By killing the evil princess, Jordan can destroy their cult and escape their strange realm under the Devil's lake. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #15 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"Somewhere in the forests of Austria, there is a hunting lodge where a terrible tragedy took place..."
An American tourist seeks shelter in the haunted lodge and witnesses the ghostly reenactment of a crime. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Fury of the Macabre Mannequins |
| Synopsis: |
Convict Duval escapes a penal colony by taking on another man's identity and transferring his fingers to him (so the fingerprints will match). Living his new life in Paris, Duval learns that his adopted identity was a murderer who coated dead women with wax and sold them as storefront dummies. He continues this line of work (the fingers do it by themself), but gets punished by the ghosts of the dummies. Duval ends as his own wax puppet. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #16 |
| Featuring: |
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"One of the greatest puppet makers of Europe was a frenchman named Andre Ulmer..."
When the puppet of a killer commits a murder, Ulmer is held responsible and thrown into an insane asylum. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Genie of the Jewel |
| Synopsis: |
Walter Prado finds a ruby containing a djinn. After fulfilling his wishes for money, power and health the genie goes for Prado's soul. Prado ends broken, mad and his soul forfeited. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Avenging Gravedigger |
| Synopsis: |
Samuel the gravedigger discovers a strange power. Whomever he digs a grave for, will die in an accident. Thus Samuel disposes of his enemies and the lover of his daughter. When she threatens to leave the house forever, Samuel starts digging a grave for her - but is himself interred by the people he "murdered". |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Wraith of the Battle Vest |
| Synopsis: |
American tourist gets involved in a Scottish clan feud. Assisted by the ghost of his great-grandfather he can avenge foul deeds of history and overcome the evil landowner Blackford. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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