Weird Terror #4

(March 1953)

Escape (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pete Morisi

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Thirteen convicts escape from a prison colony in a boat without any food. They get decimated by animals, quicksand bogs, hunger and cold. The last five go overboard in a storm and drift as a gruesome quintet to frighten ships passing them.

Reprints:

• in Danger (Comic Media, 1953 series) #11 (August 1954) [The only differences I noticed for the code change was in colors. The floating bodies were fleshed out in the code version rather than white skeletal. A hit with a poison dart was colored red in the original but not in the code version.]

Night Air (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A doctor treats a strange patient, the lovely Mara. She insists on staying indoors at night and keeping the windows strictly closed, because she feels stalked by vampires. One night the doctor ignores her pleas and is shocked to be confronted with evil.

Reprints:

• in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #21 (February 2016)

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer suggested Rudy Palais? for pencils.
First-person narrative.

History of Horror (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Synopsis:

Accounts of cannibalism and the inquisition.

"Gruesome, Huh?" (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Synopsis:

Review of the novels "Justine" and "Juliette" by Marquis de Sade.

Short Cut (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck (signed)

Inks:

Don Heck (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

adventure

Synopsis:

The bandit and tyrant El Toro wishes to be voted for president in the republic of Saldor. He uses every dirty trick in the book to get enough votes: Bribery, intimidation, blackmail. He is elected president, but shot dead the next moment by his own vice president.

Reprints:

• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #13 - Horror By Heck (December 2015)

Explorer (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

? [as Tewks] (signed)

Inks:

? Tewks (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

Synopsis:

A cruel captain commands an exploration into unknown territory. He kills dozens of natives and robs them of their resources.

Indexer Notes

Modernized story of Vasco Da Gama.