Issue: #4
Published: August 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Alfred V. Fago
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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| Cover (1 page) |
The Thing |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Al Fago (Signed) | Inks: Al Fago |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Hounds of Dartmoor |
| Featuring: |
Things You Should Know |
| Synopsis: |
Account of phantom hounds of Dartmoor, allegedly the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Dick Giordano (signed) | Inks: Dick Giordano |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
I Was A Zombie |
| Synopsis: |
Engineer Alden Blake is called to Haiti to build a dam. When he ecounters zombie slave laborers, Blake threatens to go public. He is turned into a zombie himself, but manages to take revenge. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Al Fago (Signed) | Inks: Al Fago |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Promise of Ying Ko |
| Synopsis: |
Skipper Steve Payne makes a living cruising the waters off the Chinese coast. After saving the life of a man called Ying Ko, Payne himself gets rescued years later by the now turned "pirate king" Ying Ko. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Al Tyler (signed) | Inks: Al Tyler |
| Genre: |
Adventure Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Unseen Thing |
| Synopsis: |
A student of Indian Shawnee Theology wrestles in a university lab with an invisible demon from the beyond. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Petrified Ghost |
| Synopsis: |
A sculptor is crushed to death by one of his statues. But his blood (and ghost) are absorbed by the sandstone. The statue comes alive and pursues his criminal business partners. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Terry Morse Roger Burt Rufus Helwig Professor Lyle Yates |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Partners In Death |
| Synopsis: |
Ray Bruce withhelds heart pills from his business partner Howard Croft, thus killing him slowly. But Croft's ghost returns to haunt his former associate. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Belfi (signed) | Inks: John Belfi |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Twins of Doom |
| Synopsis: |
Identical twins Peter and Paul Leverett are going to meet again after a ten-year separation. A rival steps in and kills Paul, sending Peter into (by twin-magic) a coma and summoning the local sheriff. Investigation of Peter's coma leads to the detection of Paul's murder. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Things You Should Know |
| Synopsis: |
Account of floating lights phenomena predicting deaths. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Dick Giordano ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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