(January 1954)

Stanley Morse, 1952 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gillmor Magazines Inc.
Editing
Stanley Morse (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bernard Baily
Inks
Bernard Baily
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Two robbers find a skeleton inside the safe they busted open.

Indexer Notes

None of the images on the cover match up with their respective stories.

I Killed Mary (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sal Trapani (signed as Trapani)
Inks
Sal Finocchiaro (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Bland weakling Robby is ignored and ridiculed by his family and peers for being nondescript and dull. When he decides to kill the local pretty girl Mary to prove he can be dangerous and exciting, no-one believes he did it. Distraught at not getting any respect or credit for being bold and daring, Robby then hangs himself out of depression.
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Premonition (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tony Mortellaro ?
Inks
Tony Mortellaro
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A college student has a premonition that his home town was destroyed by devils from hell. When he gets home, he's relieved to see his parents are OK and that it was all a dream. He doesn't notice they have devil tails...
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The Witche's Curse [sic] (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Eugene Hughes ?
Inks
Eugene Hughes ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A broken man who's tired of being bullied by his brutish wife goes for a walk one night and encounters a witch. She offers to change him into anything he wants and warns him not to tell anyone about her. He asks to be turned into a powerful black knight so he can kill his wife. After the deed is done, he's upset about not getting credit for the murder and tells the police what happened. They don't believe him, but since he ratted on the witch, she turns him into a rat before their eyes. The rat is then hung for the murder of the wife.
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Bum Ticker (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A young go-getter man is upset that he has a weak heart and is told by his doctor to give up his lifestyle. Depressed, he finds out about a strange doctor that can help him using unorthodox methods. He agrees to get surgery by this doctor and everything turns out fine. That is until he finds himself speeding up or slowing down at unnatural levels. Finally his heart breaks apart and it's revealed that the doctor had replaced his heart with a mechanical one.
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The One That Got Away (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tony Mortellaro ?
Inks
Tony Mortellaro ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A prize fisherman and his friend go fishing in a stream. When the fisherman gets killed by hundreds of fish looking for revenge, his friend who managed to escape, realizes that he was "The One That Got Away".
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Come and Get Me! (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. I Killed Mary
  3. 2. Premonition
  4. 3. The Witche's Curse [sic]
  5. 4. Bum Ticker
  6. 5. The One That Got Away
  7. 6. Come and Get Me!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Edgar Loftin
  • James Ludwig
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Mike White
  • Len Wolinsky