(April 1953)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-02-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions Inc.
- Brand
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Standard Comics
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 3.
The Hands of Don José
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-14**
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Barcelona in Spain. Cruel general Martinez cuts off the hands of bull fighter Don José for ogling his girl. But when Martinez is confronted by a vicious bull, the crippled matador cannot help him.
- Reprints
-
in Seduction of the Innocent! (Eclipse, 1985 series) #6 (April 1986) -
in James Bond (Semic, 1979 series) #3/1988 (uke 15 1988) - in Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth (IDW, 2011 series) (April 2011) [Republished from the original art]
- in Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) (August 2011)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
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The Three Monkeys
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1532
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Jim Bradley (writer); Gloria (fiancee)
- Synopsis
- Bradley goes to India in search of the Three Monkeys Cult. When he finds its sacred chamber, he also finds diamonds. Because of his greed he is struck blind, so that he never more will see evil.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This art is identical to his signed stories in "Real Life Comics" #53, "Intimate Confessions" #5 and "Realistic Romances"#8 (IW-edition).
Flowers on Deborah's Grave
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1522
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An old hag-like woman stalks a man and presents him with flowers. When the man uses them to decorate the grave of another woman, the hag is enraged and digs up the corpse. It is the man's daughter.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Alex Toth for pencil credits.
Ghost of Raynham Hall
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1549
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A gunshot finally scares away a persistent ghost.
- Reprints
Nothing Can Save Her
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1550
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On a nightly country road, Dr. Saunders hits a beautiful woman with his car. He can save her life by giving her transfusions of his blood. She recovers and thanks him by draining the rest of it - because she is a vampire.
- Reprints
- in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #8 (May-June 1993)
- in Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. Woolfolk credit per his record books, via Martin O'Hearn's blog:
http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/07/woolfolk-records-195210.html
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Flowers on Deborah's Grave
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1.
The Hands of Don José
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2.
Weird Maze
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3.
The Three Monkeys
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4.
Call for Claws
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5.
Phantom of Flushing
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6.
Flowers on Deborah's Grave
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7.
Ghost of Raynham Hall
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8.
Nothing Can Save Her
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Jim Van Dore
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