(November 1952)
Stanley Morse,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Aragon Magazines, Inc.
- Editing
- Stanley Morse
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age US
- Paper Stock
- newsprint interior, glossy covers
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- was ongoing series
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Tony Mortellaro ?
- Inks
- Tony Mortellaro ?
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #5 (June 2013) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
Possible Mortellaro inks per Nick Caputo, June 2014. Pevious indexer credited Bernard Baily.
Rat-Trap
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Mortellaro (signed)
- Inks
- Tony Mortellaro (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Charlie; fat rat
- Synopsis
- A prisoner feeds a rat visiting him in his jail cell. He keeps feeding the animal, because the fatter the rat gets, the more the prison bars are spreading - offering him a chance to escape. One day the prisoner is given no food - and the rat feeds on him.
- Reprints
- in Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954) which is reprinted
- in Shock (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#2 (July 1969) which is reprinted
- in Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #4 (February 1986)
- in Seduction of the Innocent (Eclipse, 1985 series) #4 (February 1986)
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The Man with the Green Thumb
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Robbins
- Inks
- Ed Robbins
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Dana; Tony Drago
- Synopsis
- Dr. Dana develops a formula which gives him plant-like capabilities. His newly acquired invulnerability provokes the envy of mobster Tony Drago. Drago tries to take the formula form Dana but is killed.
- Reprints
- in Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #19 (October 1954)
-
The Cycle!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Mortellaro (signed)
- Inks
- Tony Mortellaro (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Pago
- Synopsis
- A pearl is the catalyst for murder, over and over, as greedy men fall victim like dominoes to its allure.
- Reprints
- in Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954)
-
The Worm Turns
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A giant worm cracks through the earth's crust. After being bombarded with an atomic bomb, he splits in many parts and continues to attack.
They Saw the Light
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Frollo ?
- Inks
- Frank Frollo ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Arctic explorers find a mountain out of uranium ore, but the radiation changes them into monstrous fiends.
- Reprints
- in Stark Terror (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #1 (December 1970)
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Sheldon Moldoff for pencils.
Sarcophagus of Sandola!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Hy Fleishman (signed)
- Inks
- Hy Fleishman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Robert Morgan; Queen Sandola; Ahmond
- Synopsis
- Tourist Robert Morgan travels through Egypt and is lost in a sand storm. He finds refuge in a cave where the noble woman Sandola protects him from a snake and leads him back to the city. Sandola disappears all of a sudden, and Morgan learns that he must have met the ghost of an ancient queen, dead for two thousand years.
Indexer Notes
Narrated by masked host (Mister Mystery).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Rat-Trap
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2.
The Man with the Green Thumb
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3.
The Cycle!
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4.
The Worm Turns
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5.
They Saw the Light
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6.
Sarcophagus of Sandola!
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Bruno Andreacchi
- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- Mike Nielsen
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Lou Mougin
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