Adventures into Darkness #5

(August 1952)

Murder Mansion (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Toth

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Gangster couple hides in an abandoned mansion and conjures up the demon Teneshad to do their bidding. But there's a price to pay. Teneshad grows ever larger and takes them prisoner.

Reprints:

• in Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #2 (November 1985)
• in Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[nn] (August 2011)

Indexer Notes

signed by Peppe on page 2 panel 1

Drury's Dream (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Art Saaf

Inks:

Art Saaf

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Man dreams about his death and really dies the next day.

Death Follows Orders (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jerry Grandenetti [as JG] (signed)

Inks:

Jerry Grandenetti [as JG] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

B-1136

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense; war

Synopsis:

A unit of Nazi soldiers is being unearthed from an underground cave and comes alive again. They won't rest until they have executed their Führer's orders. A brave French girl burns the papers and the soldiers turn to dust.

The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Toth

Inks:

Mike Peppe

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

B-1116

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A pack of dogs predict the owner's death by running around castle Eyne.

The Chimes of Doom (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Irwin Shapiro

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

After Charles Hanover has killed his rich aunt, he is driven insane by guilt and hears an unending chiming of her grandfather clock.

Horror's Little Acre (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ruben Moreira

Inks:

Ruben Moreira (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

B-1112

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Honeymooners discover a killer's hideout. Luckily for them, the ground they walk on is cursed with the memory of an old unavenged murder. Nature itself turns upon the killer.

Reprints:

• in Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #2 (November 1985)

The Phantom Warning (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

A phantom apparition warns a ship about imminent destruction. The first skipper heeds the warning, the second doesn't and goes down with the ship.

Day of Reckoning! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Celardo

Inks:

John Celardo

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

B-1137

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Larry Gordon; Rosalinde Gordon; Virginia

Synopsis:

After a fire accident, singer Rosalinde Gordon turns into a bird woman with the ability to communicate with birds. When her husband smothers her in her sleep, he is hunted by dozens of birds and driven to death.

Reprints:

• in Des Comics et des Hommes (Edition du temps, 2005 series) #[nn]