The Clutching Hand #1

(July-August 1954)

The Real McCoy! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Shock (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#4 (November 1969)
• in Wicked Witchs' Tales (Gredown, 1978 series) #2 ([February 1979])

Death At the Carnival (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Lazarus

Inks:

Harry Lazarus

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints:

• in Shock (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#6 (March 1970)
• in Chilling Tales of Horror (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v2#5 (October 1971)
• in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #2 ([April 1973])
• in Dimension of Doom (Gredown, 1980 ? series) #[nn] ([June 1984] ?)

Vampires? Don't Make Me Laugh! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Inks:

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints:

• in Chilling Tales of Horror (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#3 (October 1969) [retitled]

Death of a Doll! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Rosenberger

Inks:

John Rosenberger

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Corpse-Maker (narrator)

Reprints:

• in Shock (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#4 (November 1969)
• in Shock (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#4.

The Tiny Heads! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Grim Reaper (host); un-named jungle trading-post employee; Maloka (Chief of the Jovalis Tribe, death); Jovalis Tribe (all die); McGuire (villain, trading-post employee)

Synopsis:

When the Jovalis Tribe refuses to sell any more shrunken heads because the jungle trading-post was not giving them enough money for them, employee McGuire decides to visit their village and get the heads, even if he has to kill all of the tribe to get them. But the tiny heads get their revenge in a big way!

Reprints:

• in Chilling Tales of Horror (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#3 (October 1969)
• in Showcase (PS Artbooks, 2013 series) #nn (2013)

Keywords:

The Jovalis

Indexer Notes

This story was reprinted in a very special limited edition large booklet prepared for the London Super Comic Convention for 2013 by PS Artbooks, along with many covers and full comic stories and short comic featurettes from the 1940's and early 1950's. Inker credit revised from ? to Moldoff by Craig Delich 2013-4-21 per this volume.

Flowering Death (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Good

Inks:

Ed Good

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Yawning Graves (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ken Landau (signed)

Inks:

Ken Landau (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints:

• in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #7 ([May 1974])

Indexer Notes

Cover story

The Trainer (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Lazarus

Inks:

Harry Lazarus

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints:

• in Shock (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v3#4 (September 1971)
• in Shock (Portman Distribution, 1979 series) #1 (1979)