(August 1953)
Toby,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1953-05-22
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Minoan Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
A Minoan Magazine
- Editing
- Mell Lazarus (credited as Mel Lazarus) (art director); Elliott Caplin (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 152.
The Treacherous Genie!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Pre-Code Classics: Tales of Horror (PS Artbooks, 2018 series) #2 (February 2019)
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The Treacherous Genie
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- curio shop owner; Helen of Troy; Cleopatra; Marie Antoinette; male Genie (villain); female Genie (villain); Edgar Tilburt (villain)
- Synopsis
- Edgar was a small, ungifted, simple man, who could not see himself being anything but a wage-slave all of his life, so he decided to do something about it by becoming a petty thief to earn extra money. One day, he visits an out-of-the-way shop and is shown glass bottles containing live tiny people inside of it, who are actually Genii. For $50 million, the bottle and any Genie is his to make whatever living from it he can. When Edgar tells the shop owner that he only has $5, the owner agrees and sells him the bottled Genie anyway, much to his dismay in the end!
- Reprints
-
in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #29 (2016)
-
Test of Terror!
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#5 (September 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v12#3 (September 1979)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #29 (2016)
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The Fiend of Flames
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Inks
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #29 (2016)
-
The Weirdest Suicide Pact of All Times!
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An undead woman goes to visit her husband at the prison after he was executed. She reveals to the warden that she killed herself in a suicide pact she made with her convict husband before his execution and only went to the prison to find out why it took an extra hour for him to be executed.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #29 (2016)
- in Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Story title corrected by Dick Sabo via the GCD Errors list, January 2010.
Special on Beet Soup
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Inks
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#6 (November 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#2 (May 1976)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v10#[1] (January 1979)
- in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v1#3 (May 1979)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v14#2 (July 1981)
- in Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (Dennis Druktenis, 2009 series) #3 (2010)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #29 (2016)
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Brief Stop at Lambeau
text story / 2 pages
- Reprints
- from The Purple Claw (Toby, 1953 series) #2 (March 1953)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Treacherous Genie!
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1.
The Treacherous Genie
A Tale of Horror -
2.
Test of Terror!
A Tale of Horror -
3.
The Fiend of Flames
A Tale of Horror -
4.
The Weirdest Suicide Pact of All Times!
A Tale of Horror -
5.
Special on Beet Soup
A Tale of Horror -
6.
Brief Stop at Lambeau
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