(January 1953)
American Comics Group,
1948 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Best Syndicated Features Inc.
- Brand
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American Comics Group ACG
- Editing
- Richard Hughes (editor)
Issue Notes
Issue copyright by Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
Tale of Terror
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Satan; Scotty; Georgette; Lou; unnamed editor; demons
- Synopsis
- Satan himself sells a story to a comic book editor and demons threaten the creative staff until the printing plates are destroyed, and the demons along with them.
- Reprints
Behind The Door!
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joan
- Synopsis
- Joan keeps repeating a horrific experience of entering a house with a monster lurking within, unable to tell where a daydream ends and reality begins.
Indexer Notes
The author is a 14 years old fan of this comic book.
Apollo's Fatal Gloves
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Glen Sanders; Apollo; Ginny; unnamed janitor
- Synopsis
- Glen Sanders finds a pair of magic gloves but they are stolen by someone who uses them to murder, until Apollo creates a second pair so Glen can defeat the murderer.
- Reprints
-
in Shock (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v3#2 (May 1971)
-
Hurry! Get Your Own Gold Lettered Personalized Wallet!
Smith Brothers Cough Drops / advertisement / 0.5 page
The Ghostly Flag-Raising
Uncanny Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Relates that some Army personnel have seen an apparently ghostly recreation of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima on the anniversary of the actual event.
- Reprints
in The Hungry Horde
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mark; Martha; Mr. Mason; Master Vampire
- Synopsis
- After a theft of a large amount of blood plasma, Mark and Martha are called to investigate. They discover the Master Vampire using the plasma to create an army but destroy the army and the Master.
- Reprints
- in Chilling Tales of Horror (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#3 (October 1969)
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #6 (March 1974) - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #8 (2010)
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[no title indexed]
Let's Talk It Over! / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Becky Stone; M. Barrows; B. Wagner; Jean Tennaro, with illustration and editorial.
The Skeleton's Secret!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Elwood Barker; Frank Moore; Len; Stella Barker (as skeleton)
- Synopsis
- To forestall a tough exam, Frank Moore steals a skeleton from a classroom, but the skeleton of the professor's wife has a plan of revenge against her murdering husband.
- Reprints
in Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Tale of Terror
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1.
50 Cowboys & Indians; 41 Circus Toys
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2.
Tale of Terror
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3.
Boys, Get That Real R.R. Engineer's Thrill
Lionel Trains -
4.
Behind The Door!
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5.
Apollo's Fatal Gloves
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6.
It's New...
Skeleton Hand -
7.
Hurry! Get Your Own Gold Lettered Personalized Wallet!
Smith Brothers Cough Drops -
8.
The Ghostly Flag-Raising
Uncanny Mysteries -
9.
The Hungry Horde
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10.
[no title indexed]
Let's Talk It Over! -
11.
The Skeleton's Secret!
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12.
The Evil Eye
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13.
Giant Collection of 100 Games $1
Seagee Co. -
14.
Announcing the New Daisy Defender
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
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- arjay
- Hector G. Dueñas G.
- James Ludwig
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Rowe
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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