Horror Tales
#v2#6
(November 1970)
Eerie Publications,
1969 Series
Deadman's Ghost
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A businessman is sent to Africa to learn how a remote tribe's secret method for dying lion heads. When he arrives, he finds that they believe men come back in the form of wild animals. He scoffs at the belief, but when he tried to make off with the tribe's stash of diamonds, he wishes he hadn’t.
- Reprints
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from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #9 (August 1952) [reworked] - in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#3 (July 1972)
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Indexer Notes
Original title: "Terror of the Lion's Revenge."
Walk the Edge of Darkness
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An orphan is taken in by a greedy guardian who has her boyfriend killed then tries to marry her off to his piggish son, but even the grave won't keep these lovers apart.
- Reprints
- from Weird Terror (Comic Media, 1952 series) #6 (July 1953) [reworked]
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#3 (July 1972)
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in Pit of Evil (Gredown, 1975 ? series) #10 ([1978])
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Indexer Notes
Original title: "Die."
Night of Terror
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- After a quarrel with his wife, a man decides to teach her a lesson by running out of gas near a "haunted" house. But the joke turns to terror when the couple encounters a dead body and an ax-wielding maniac inside.
- Reprints
- from Voodoo (Farrell, 1952 series) #16 (July-August 1954) [with new splash page]
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Vampires
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A psychiatrist treats an actress who has been typecast as a vampire so often that she fears she is becoming one.
- Reprints
- from Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#10 (November 1969) which is reprinted
- from Fantastic Comics (Farrell, 1954 series) #10 (November-December 1954) [retitled]
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Green Horror
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ken Battefield ?; Carl Burgos (additions)
- Inks
- Ken Battefield ?; Iger Shop ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A jealous, living, evil cactus will kill anyone who tries to come between him and the woman he loves.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Fears (Farrell, 1953 series) #8 (July-August 1954)
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Web of the Widow
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Things look grim after an Egyptologist is bitten by a deadly "temple spider" while exploring a pyramid but they look up when a mysterious woman arrives from nowhere to cure him - at least until he finds out that she has an unnatural fondness for the eight-legged creatures.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Thrills (Farrell, 1952 series) #16 (July-August 1954)
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Zombie Vengeance
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A ghost writer travels to a Central American country to secure the release of a political prisoner, only to find out that the country is ruled by voodoo practitioners.
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v3#2 (May 1969) which is reprinted
- from Haunted Thrills (Farrell, 1952 series) #12 (November 1953) [retitled]
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Deadman's Ghost
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2.
Walk the Edge of Darkness
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3.
Night of Terror
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4.
Vampires
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5.
Green Horror
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6.
Web of the Widow
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7.
Zombie Vengeance
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8.
The Witch's Curse
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Mike Nielsen
- Keith Smith
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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