Witches Tales
#20
(August 1953)
Harvey,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Witches Tales Inc.
- Editing
- Leon Harvey
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Powell (sourced); Warren Kremer (sourced) (layout sketch and paste-up on man's face)
- Inks
- Bob Powell (sourced); Warren Kremer (sourced) (layout sketch and paste-up on man's face)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Rosen
- Genre
- horror-suspense
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / pages
- Script
- Leon Harvey ?
- Pencils
- Lee Elias; Bob Powell; Jack Sparling; Howard Nostrand
- Inks
- Lee Elias; Bob Powell ?; Jack Sparling; Howard Nostrand
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset; Joe Rosen
Indexer Notes
Table of contents page includes editorial and images from interior stories.
Jazz!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Synopsis
- Mr. Whipple, a manager of jazz musicians, exposes trumpet player Les Trayne as a soulless robot.
- Reprints
-
in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#6 (November 1973) [reworked]
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Indexer Notes
First-person narrative
Project X
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- Unsuccessful scientist blows himself up with his laboratory.
[Georgie Porgie]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
Kiss and Kill
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- John meets Heather at a "friendship club", falls in love with her and marries her. But John is not the handsome man he seems to be - and neither is Heather the beauty she appears to be.
- Reprints
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#1 (January 1970) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v4#1 (January 1971)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v7#4 (June 1973)
- in '50s Terror (Malibu, 1988 series) #1 (October 1988)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #8 (2010)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #35 (June 2018)
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Indexer Notes
Cover story.
Shock!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- Hubert Kranz thinks his wife Dorthy is cheating on him with caretaker Jed. He kills them both in a rage. Kranz, however, has been all wrong about the matter.
- Reprints
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#2 (March 1970) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#3 (June 1971), #v6#7 (December 1972)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#6 (December 1974)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #8 - Howard Nostrand's Nightmares (November 2014)
-
Great Illusion
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Mad biologist Dr. Morton plans to attack the city with a herd of monster cows.
Legends of the Sky
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Superstitions about sun, moon and stars.
I'll String Along
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- Paulo Ortiz is hanged. The dying man fantasizes his escape before drawing his last breath.
- Reprints
- in '50s Terror (Malibu, 1988 series) #1 (October 1988)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #33 (2017)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Jazz!
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3.
Project X
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4.
[Georgie Porgie]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes -
5.
Kiss and Kill
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6.
Shock!
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7.
Great Illusion
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8.
Legends of the Sky
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9.
I'll String Along
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- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Jim Van Dore
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