(November 1952)
Stanley Morse,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Aragon Magazines Inc.
- Editing
- Stanley Morse
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
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in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #5 (June 2013) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
Possible Mortellaro inks per Nick Caputo, June 2014. Pevious indexer credited Bernard Baily.
Rat-Trap
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Charlie; fat rat
- Synopsis
- A prisoner feeds a rat visiting him in his jail cell. He keeps feeding the animal, because the fatter the rat gets, the more the prison bars are spreading - offering him a chance to escape. One day the prisoner is given no food - and the rat feeds on him.
- Reprints
- in Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954) which is reprinted
- in Shock (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#2 (July 1969) which is reprinted
- in Seduction of the Innocent! (Eclipse, 1985 series) #4 (February 1986)
- in Seduction of the Innocent! (Eclipse, 1985 series) #4 (February 1986)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #6 (2009)
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The Man with the Green Thumb
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Dana; Tony Drago
- Synopsis
- Dr. Dana develops a formula which gives him plant-like capabilities. His newly acquired invulnerability provokes the envy of mobster Tony Drago. Drago tries to take the formula form Dana but is killed.
- Reprints
- in Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #19 (October 1954)
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The Cycle!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Pago
- Synopsis
- A pearl is the catalyst for murder, over and over, as greedy men fall victim like dominoes to its allure.
- Reprints
- in Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954)
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The Worm Turns
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A giant worm cracks through the earth's crust. After being bombarded with an atomic bomb, he splits in many parts and continues to attack.
They Saw the Light
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Arctic explorers find a mountain out of uranium ore, but the radiation changes them into monstrous fiends.
- Reprints
- in Stark Terror (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #1 (December 1970)
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Sheldon Moldoff for pencils.
Sarcophagus of Sandola!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Robert Morgan; Queen Sandola; Ahmond
- Synopsis
- Tourist Robert Morgan travels through Egypt and is lost in a sand storm. He finds refuge in a cave where the noble woman Sandola protects him from a snake and leads him back to the city. Sandola disappears all of a sudden, and Morgan learns that he must have met the ghost of an ancient queen, dead for two thousand years.
Indexer Notes
Narrated by masked host (Mister Mystery).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Rat-Trap
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2.
The Man with the Green Thumb
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3.
The Cycle!
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4.
The Worm Turns
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5.
They Saw the Light
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6.
Sarcophagus of Sandola!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bruno Andreacchi
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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