(Fall 1948)

American Comics Group, 1948 Series
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Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
52
Indicia frequency:
quarterly
Indicia Publisher:
B & I Publishing Co., Inc.
Editing:
Richard E. Hughes (credited)
Format:
Color; Standard US format; saddle-stitched; Newsprint; #1-33: 52 pages; later issues 36 pages; mostly monthly series

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Edvard Moritz
Inks:
Edvard Moritz
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

To Our Readers (Table of Contents)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Richard Hughes ?
Pencils:
Dan Gordon
Inks:
Dan Gordon
Letters:
Dan Gordon

The Werewolf Strikes (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Frank Belknap Long
Pencils:
Edvard Moritz
Inks:
Edvard Moritz
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ed Hamilton

Content Information

Genre:
Occult
Synopsis:
They captured a timber wolf, but it was instead a Werewolf!

The Living Ghost (Table of Contents)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Frank Belknap Long
Pencils:
Fred Guardineer
Inks:
Fred Guardineer
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Occult
Synopsis:
Train wrecksed, man strangled, cars thrown over cliffs; could it be the supernatural?
Malveo, Satan's first lieutenant, lives and is looking for a Queen!

Indexer Notes

First appearance of the Institute of Psychic Research.
Story line to be continued.


Voodo (Table of Contents)

Strange Spirits / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
King Ward
Inks:
King Ward
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ed Hamilton

Content Information

Genre:
Occult

The Painted Grave (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Frank Belknap Long ?
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ed Hamilton; typeset

It Walked By Night (Table of Contents)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Max Elkan
Inks:
Max Elkan
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Occult

The Castle of Otranto (Table of Contents)

Tell Me A Ghost Story / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Frank Belknap Long (adaption)
Pencils:
Al Ulmer
Inks:
Al Ulmer
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Occult
Characters:
Alfonso Otranto; Manfred; Isabella; Theodore (heir to Otranto Castle)

Indexer Notes

adapted from novel by Horace Walpole


The Vengeful Specter of Lord Tyrone (Table of Contents)

True Ghosts of History / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Edvard Moritz
Inks:
Edvard Moritz
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Occult
Characters:
Lord Tyrone; Lady Beresford; Dr. Herwood

Haunted House (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
King Ward [as W.] (signed)
Inks:
King Ward [as W.] (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Occult
Characters:
Fred Eager (detective); Benny Beaver (detective); Lorna Brent; Horace Brent (ghost); Fielding (crooked lawyer); Jones (crooked lawyer)

Indexer Notes

cover story


The Cursed Pistol (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Edvard Moritz
Inks:
Edvard Moritz
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Occult

Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. To Our Readers
  2. 2. The Werewolf Strikes
  3. 3. The Living Ghost
  4. 4. Voodo
    Strange Spirits
  5. 5. The Painted Grave
  6. 6. It Walked By Night
  7. 7. The Castle of Otranto
    Tell Me A Ghost Story
  8. 8. The Vengeful Specter of Lord Tyrone
    True Ghosts of History
  9. 9. Haunted House
  10. 10. The Cursed Pistol
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