(September 1953)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-07-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 187.
Mission From the Grave
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- Keywords
- skeletons
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Mission from the Grave
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1693
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Art painter dies in fire accident, but returns to finish painting of his fianceé. The shocked woman revokes her love.
- Reprints
Rider in the Storm
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1700
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Truck driver gives a lift to a phantom girl who died the week before.
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #4 (April 2013) which is reprinted - in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #7 - Haunted Horror Vol. 2: Comics Your Mother Warned You About (October 2014)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
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The Finger of Guilt
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-1695
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Neal; Penny
- Synopsis
- A young woman is killed, her body hidden in a well. The woman's ghost points the police to the body and her killer.
- Reprints
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #16 (March 2015)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #24 - Haunted Horror: Nightmare of Doom and Much More! (Volume 6) (March 2018)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
-
- Keywords
- electric chair; ghost; murder
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Trophies of Doom
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1683
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Paulo Danjou; Giovanni; Luigi; Yvonne
- Synopsis
- The town's executioner falls for a lovely woman. When rejected, he strangles her and is haunted by her ghostly apparition. All the "headsman"'s victims come together and take justice into their own hands.
- Reprints
- in Seduction of the Innocent 3-D (Eclipse, 1985 series) #2 (April 1986) [in 3-D]
-
in Helgenen (Semic, 1977 series) #3/1988 (uke 12 1988) - in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #8 (December 2013) which is reprinted
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #10 - Haunted Horror: Pre-Code Comics So Scary, They're Good! (Volume 3) (September 2015)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
-
- Keywords
- beheading; grave robbing
Call of the Werewolf
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Jim Hendryx
- Pencils
- Jack Katz ? [as J. K.] (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Katz ? [as J. K.] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-1682
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Young Jody experiences his transformation into a werewolf and runs with the pack of local wolves.
- Reprints
The Bride of Death
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- B-1694
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A young woman's groom dies at sea and death comes to claim her as his bride.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This story has nothing to do with the story of the same name and same artist featured in Adventures into Darkness #7.
The Bread of Madness
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1708
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Albert Dupres, escaped convict from a penal colony, finds shelter with a native witch doctor. Robbing and killing the man, Dupres leaves the island with magic potions and builds a new life for himself. By baking his enemies deadly "breads of madness", Dupres becomes a powerful man. In the end the witch doctor returns from the dead and serves him a murderous bite.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Mission From the Grave
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1.
Mission from the Grave
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2.
Rider in the Storm
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3.
The Finger of Guilt
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4.
Trophies of Doom
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5.
Call of the Werewolf
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6.
The Bride of Death
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7.
The Bread of Madness
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- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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