(April 1952)
Harvey,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Witches Tales Inc.
- Editing
- Leon Harvey
Issue Notes
Some information from a digitized copy at Comicbook Plus.
Pit of the Damned!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A carnival owner reads from a forbidden book of evil to conjure up demons for a new exhibit in order to increase business. The demons eventually take him to Hell.
- Reprints
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in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#6 (December 1973) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#2 (July 1977)
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in Avenging Spirit (Gredown, 1984 series) ([1984]) - in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #2 - Bob Powell's Terror (November 2011)
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Crawling Death
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two couples land on a mysterious island and are attacked by giant human-like crabs.
Indexer Notes
Inker credit from George Hagenauer via the error list (January 2007) after his examination of the original art and finding both Don Perlin and Abe Simon's names on the back.
Garden of Horror
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man buys a cursed vase that will cause anything he puts into it to die. When he destroys the vase and the dead plants, they begin to grow into a huge garden on his estate. Anyone that comes into contact with the garden will die instantly. He goes mad and lures numerous people into his garden where they die horrible deaths. Eventually the dead come back to life and force him into the garden.
- Reprints
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v6#6 (November 1973) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#4 (October 1976)
- in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v1#4 (August 1979)
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The Seal of Satan
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A down on his luck gambler makes a deal with the devil where the devil promises him that he will never lose again. After becoming rich, he tries to double cross the devil by destroying the contract. It doesn't work.
- Reprints
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#6 (December 1973) [reworked]
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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.
Pit of the Damned!
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2.
Crawling Death
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3.
Garden of Horror
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4.
The Seal of Satan
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- John Kerry
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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