(November 1952)
Toby,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-07-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Minoan Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
A Minoan Magazine
- Editing
- Elliott Caplin (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 242.
The Devil's Clock!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Myron Fass (signed as Myron Fass)
- Inks
- Myron Fass (signed as Myron Fass)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
The Big Snake!
The Big Snake / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Inks
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- John Reid (member of the Scientific Research League); Paul Vale (villain, scientist)
- Synopsis
- A scientist has created a serum when, mixed with blood and injected into a creature, allows that creature to grow as long as the scientist wishes, but also allows the injected animal to take on the characteristics of the animal from which the blood was taken. After a huge snake swallows the scientist, it grows into an even bigger giant guided by human intelligence that attacks New York City.
- Reprints
-
in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #8 (December 1953) - in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v9#1 (January 1975) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v11#1 (March 1978)
- in Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (Dennis Druktenis, 2009 series) #5 (2011)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #15 - Snake Tales (August 2016)
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The Devil's Clock
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Don Simmons; Betty Stevens; Jorak
- Synopsis
- A betrothed couple purchases a strange antique clock. When the husband winds the clock backwards, he's sent thousands of years into the past and encounters a cult of demonic pagans who try to force him to sacrifice his wife in the present day, so time can loop with his sacrifice into the past thus allowing them to enter the modern world.
- Reprints
- in Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
-
- Keywords
- human sacrifice; time travel
Trespasser from Beyond
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Myron Fass (signed as Myron Fass)
- Inks
- Myron Fass (signed as Myron Fass)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
[no title indexed]
Prospector Pete / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boo! It's getting real dark, Pete.
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Reprints
- in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #11 (June 1954)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Devil's Clock!
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1.
The Big Snake!
The Big Snake -
2.
The Devil's Clock
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3.
The Toy Army
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4.
Trespasser from Beyond
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5.
["Boo! It's getting real dark, Pete."]
Prospector Pete
This issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Craig Delich
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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