Issue: #1
Published: January 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: One-Shot
Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries Periodicals 1946-1947, page 121
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
In the ruins of a temple during a full moon, a demonic man in a robe approaches a bound woman with a knife intent on sacrificing her. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Eyes of the Tiger |
| Synopsis: |
Carl Cattler has a docile pet tiger named Flame that he raised from birth. He plans on converting all wild beasts into pets. One night Flame licks Carl's bloody foot and gets a taste of blood. Carl flees and has no choice but to shoot Flame. However Flame's ghost keeps chasing him causing Carl to die of fright. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Carl Cattler Doctor Manton |
| Comic Story (11 pages) |
Dead Man's Tale |
| Synopsis: |
Down on his luck Myron Morgan steals a bottle of magic elixir from a tramp and kills him after he found out the elixir grants wishes. The dying tramp warns him that when the liquid is gone, he will die. Myron uses the bottle to become rich beyond his wildest dreams. Years later, he realizes that the bottle is almost used up. He put the bottle in a safe to make sure the last drops of liquid never evaporates, but his young daughter finds the bottle and playfully breaks it. This causes Myron to die of a heart attack. |
| Genre: |
Fantasy Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Myron Morgan Ronnie Morgan |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
The Man-Eating Lizards |
| Synopsis: |
A U.S military plane goes down in the ocean. Two crewmen drown and the sergeant is killed by sharks. The last two men are kidnapped by violent natives who take them to their island. The savages worship two giant lizards on the island and offer the men as a human sacrifice. Suddenly the female natives turn on the violent male tribe members and rescue the airman. As the group flees the island, the native chief gets eaten by the giant lizards. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Bert Mikey Joe Lennie Nika |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Goofy Ghost |
| Synopsis: |
Goofy is given a new assignment to haunt a house. When he finds the house is already haunted, he flees in terror. |
| Genre: |
Humor Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Goofy Ghost |
| Text Story (3 pages) |
Proof |
| Synopsis: |
Mr. Grohson, the district attorney, comes to a small village to look into a murder where George Macready shot his brother. George claimed he thought his brother was a burgler. Grohson meets the woman who runs a boarding house. She keeps the backdoor always open thinking that one day her dead husband and son will return. Grohson is stunned when he sees their ghosts enter the home until he realizes it was a trick to convince him that sometimes people can mistake things. Grohson then realizes George was telling the truth. |
| Credits: |
Inks: ? (2 spot illustrations) | Colours: ? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Grohson Mrs. Brougham George Macready |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Mystery of Murder Manor |
| Synopsis: |
Johnny and Rupert Rawlings take refuge in a supposedly haunted house but realize the house is inhabited by a senile old seaman who thinks his collection of pebbles and sea shells are pirates treasure. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Johnny Rawlings Rupert Rawlins |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Strange Case of Henpecked Harry |
| Synopsis: |
Harry Horton pushes his emotionally and physically abusive wife onto subway tracks killing her. The guilt makes him see her mangled corpse taunting him causing him to panic and fall off the roof of the building he lives in. It's later revealed that it wasn't his wife he had killed but a woman that was wearing his wife's coat. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Harry Horton Helen Horton |
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