(October 1953)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Farrell Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- A Farrell Publication
- Editing:
- Ruth Roche
- Format:
- Color; Standard US size; saddle-stitched
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v1#12 (October 1966) - in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#1 (January 1972)
- in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #7 (Winter 1992-1993)
-
Death Strikes Four
comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Inks:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A party of four friends visits a country home. Little do they know that the clock tower nearby is inhabited by an evil spirit. The clockwork runs on human flesh and blood - as the friends soon find out.
The Riddle of Manitou Rock
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Inks:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense; western-frontier
- Synopsis:
- Part indian hermit Terry lives under Manitou Rock, a sacred site. A friendly will o' the wisp guides him to a hidden bandit treasure, but some gangsters start to interfere.
Ghost Cat
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- African ghost story from Kenya: The great hunters R'wana and Ngobi fight over the chieftain's daughter, Blina.
Guided Death
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Inks:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- war
- Synopsis:
- Captain Davis, a pilot in the Korean conflict, bravely manages to direct an unmanned plane (a guided missile) straight into its target - thus blowing up a railroad tunnel.
Indexer Notes
Straight war story.
Cry from the Coffin
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Inks:
- ? (Iger Shop)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A nameless man hits his head on a fire hydrant in the street and falls into a locked-in-state of being. Fully conscious, but unable to move or speak he has to witness identification by his unfaithful wife, an autopsy in which his heart is removed and his own funeral.
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