Issue: #9
Published: July 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 115
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: George Rousous ? | Inks: George Rousous ? | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Corpse That Came to Dinner |
| Synopsis: |
A young couple returns from their honeymoon. They learn that a friend has committed suicide, because he had wanted to marry the girl. The friend's corpse climbs out of his grave and lays siege to the couple's apartment. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Reed Crandall [as C] (signed) | Inks: Mike Peppe [as P] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Human Hyena of Pirra |
| Synopsis: |
Hunter shoots a were-hyena in Northern Africa. |
| Credits: |
Inks: George Roussos ? |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
The Horror of Candle Lodge |
| Synopsis: |
Ghost of US-American freedom fighter slays the descendants of British soldiers who lured him into a trap. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Nick Cardy | Inks: Nick Cardy |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Battle of Edge Hill |
| Synopsis: |
Eye-witnesses confirm the "fata morgana" of a ghost battle in the sky. |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Till Death Do Us Part |
| Synopsis: |
Charles finds out that her sister's husband is keeping him from his inheritance by pretending the sister still to be alive. She died some time ago and is paraded through town as a veiled mummy. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Nick Cardy | Inks: Nick Cardy ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
High Hung the Witch |
| Synopsis: |
Barkham in New England. Cob Hathorne, descendant of a witch hunter, comes to visit and is killed by a surviving witch who stayed young through the centuries. |
| Credits: |
Script: John Marvin | Pencils: John Celardo ? (illustrations) | Inks: John Celardo ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
Gunnvor the Sorceress |
| Synopsis: |
Account of Icelandic saga about madwoman Gunnvor, who could not be killed and haunted her people in many different shapes. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ralph Mayo (signed) | Inks: Ralph Mayo (signed) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Hanged by the Neck |
| Synopsis: |
The magician El Rondo grows jealous of his assistant and hangs him on stage (during a magic routine). Haunted by the man's ghost, El Rondo meets his fate getting paid back in kind. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Reed Crandall | Inks: Reed Crandall |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Spanish Steed |
| Synopsis: |
Wanting to tame a legendary gray stallion, a sportsman is suddenly faced with a centaur. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mort Meskin ? | Inks: George Roussos ? |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Horror-suspense |
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