Issue: #12
Published: December 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. 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 187.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Conspiracy with Death |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky ? | Inks: Mike Peppe ? | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Serpent of Doom |
| Synopsis: |
Lydia longs for riches and enters into a pact with snake god Seth. Covering her murderous tracks, Seth grants her fame and fortune. When Lydia herself begins to turn into a snake, she plunges into despair. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Celardo | Inks: John Celardo |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Spectral Sergeant |
| Synopsis: |
A sergeant's phantom warns his soldier buddies about an imminent German attack in WW I. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Katz ? | Inks: Jack Katz ? | Letters: John Duffy |
| Genre: |
Fantasy War |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Horror's Scrapbook |
| Synopsis: |
Accounts of weird occurrences and incidents. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
The Living-Dead of Kulatum! |
| Synopsis: |
In Brazil an explorer discovers the pyramids of Manoa and the cult of the living-dead. His escape is only temporary, for he is lost in the jungle. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Gene Fawcette | Inks: Gene Fawcette |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Conspiracy with Death |
| Synopsis: |
A sailor pays a witch doctor to put a jinx on his rival. The sailer gets the girl, but refuses to pay his debt. It's his turn to be jinxed now. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: George Roussos | Inks: George Roussos |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Last Dance |
| Synopsis: |
A cavalry soldier killed by Apaches returns from the dead to prevent his girl from marrying someone else. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense Western-frontier |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Shanghai Ship |
| Synopsis: |
In an attempt to kidnap sailors for a cargo ship loaded with contraband, the kidnappers are detected and drown. They wake up in the land of the dead - and are shanghaied for service on the "Flying Dutchman". |
| Credits: |
Script: John Marvin | Pencils: John Celardo ? | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Gypsy Curse |
| Synopsis: |
Nogoodnik Lou disposes of his difigured wife and is therefore faced with a gypsy curse. He won't find happiness as fate strikes pushing him into poverty and madness. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Katz ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Nightmare Island |
| Synopsis: |
An island off the Australian coast proves indeed to be haunted, as a dockworker finds out who volunteered to spend the night there. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Gene Fawcette | Inks: Gene Fawcette |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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