Weird Terror
#4
(March 1953)
Comic Media,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Allen Hardy Associates
- Brand
- Comic Media [book]
- Editing
- Allen Hardy
Escape
comic story / 7 pages
- 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
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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.]
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Night Air
comic story / 6 pages
- 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
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested Rudy Palais? for pencils.
First-person narrative.
"Gruesome, Huh?"
text article / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Review of the novels "Justine" and "Juliette" by Marquis de Sade.
Short Cut
comic story / 7 pages
- 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
Explorer
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alberta Tewks [as Tewks] (signed)
- Inks
- Alberta Tewks [as 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Escape
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2.
Night Air
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3.
History of Horror
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4.
"Gruesome, Huh?"
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5.
Short Cut
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6.
Explorer
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- Mike Nielsen
- Tillmann Courth
- Per Sandell
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