The Thing
#2
(April 1952)
Charlton,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Song Hits Inc.
- Brand
-
A Songhits Comics Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (editor)
The Thing
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
The Thing Presents
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Inside front cover table of contents page.
- Reprints
The Red Death
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- King George; Jester (unnamed)
- Synopsis
- A terrible and deadly plague ravages a medieval king's land. While his peasants die, the king holds a masquerade ball. But the "red death" enters as an unwelcome visitor.
- Reprints
-
in Ghostly Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #[nn] ([January 1981]) [“The Thing” banner removed from every page of story.] -
in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #28 (2016) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)
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- Keywords
- castle; plague
Indexer Notes
Cover story. Country: Hippotamia
El Toro Diablo
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A boy with the looks and the horns of a bull becomes famed matador Tomas Hernandez. He undergoes plastic surgery and wins the love of senorita Inez, but fighting bulls proves to be his doom.
- Reprints
The Witch's House
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A demolition crew trying to demolish a witch's house is killed one by one.
- Reprints
The Creature
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Synopsis
- The earth is befallen by mysterious cancerous growths. The alien creature escapes its prison in the tank and battles an evil planet causing the mutations. On its return to a saved earth the creature gets hit by a passing meteor.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Part two of a story begun in the last issue.
The White Rat
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Tyler ? (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Forgione ? (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A doctor is bullied by his strong assistant. He invents a muscle growth serum and goes for payback.
- Reprints
Impossible?
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Belfi (signed)
- Inks
- John Belfi (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Account of unlikely events.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Thing
-
1.
The Thing Presents
-
2.
The Red Death
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3.
El Toro Diablo
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4.
The Witch's House
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5.
The Creature
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6.
The White Rat
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7.
Impossible?
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8.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Mark Muller
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Mike White
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