(July 1954)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Unity Publishing Corp.
- Brand:
- Ace
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; Newsprint; Ongoing Series
Haunt of the Howling Head
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ken Rice
- Inks:
- Ken Rice
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Kip Hunter has been to Borneo and brought along a box full of preservered severed heads. Being responsible for the deaths of these people, the heads come to life and hunt Hunter down.
True Tales of the Supernatural # 53
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sy Grudko
- Inks:
- Sy Grudko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- "In the police records of a southern province of France, is a baffling tale of the weird and mystifying..."
A body of a man murdered in a wine cellar pops up on the wedding night of his killer.
Fangs of the Fiend
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks:
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A dentist extracts all his rival's teeth and replaces them with dog's teeth - turning the man into a werewolf. After going on a rampage, the beast is caught and the teeth are removed again, rendering the man harmless. Only now the doctor got bitten and turns werewolf.
True Tales of the Supernatural # 54
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sy Grudko
- Inks:
- Sy Grudko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- "The despicable crime of grave robbing brought a great share of wealth to young Pietro Vagas, an unscrupulous grave digger of the nineteenth century..."
One night Vagas opens the grave of a strange man and gets robbed himself - of his soul, by the devil.
Catastrophe, Inc.
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jim McLaughlin
- Inks:
- Jim McLaughlin
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Suicidal newspaper reporter Elliot Burke has written his own obituary already when he meets a man with a magic mirror foretelling the future. Burke is able to get some scoops, but he gets careless and that obituary comes in handy after all.
The Claws Rip Deep
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- Waiting at a train station in Hungary, Bill Hansford becomes acquainted with a witch. Anna Marie is there to take her revenge on a rival witch, executed by her black cat Dushko.
Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks:
- Vince Alascia
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed.
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Table of Contents
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Haunt of the Howling Head
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True Tales of the Supernatural # 53
True Tales of the Supernatural -
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Fangs of the Fiend
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True Tales of the Supernatural # 54
True Tales of the Supernatural -
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Catastrophe, Inc.
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The Claws Rip Deep
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Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch
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