Weird Terror
#8
(November 1953)
Comic Media,
1952 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Allen Hardy Associates, Inc.
- Brand
- Comic Media [book]
- Editing
- Allen Hardy
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Binding
- Saddle-Stitched
- Publishing Format
- Was Ongoing Series
Blood of the Bat
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rudy Palais (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Palais (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 (June 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
-
in Indexer Notes
cover story for last issue
Step into My Parlor
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? [as Tewks] (signed)
- Inks
- ? [as Tewks] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two bank robbers try to rob an overweight woman who lives alone in a boarded up derelict house in the slums. Turns out she's really an alien creature that feeds on human flesh.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #33 (April 2018)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v4#1 (January 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#3 (June 1973)
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Indexer Notes
Cover story
Mirror Image
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rudy Palais (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Palais (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An unlikable rich uncle sees a snake in his room and dies of fright. Little did he realize it was his nephews' toy snake.
- Reprints
- in Weird Worlds (Eerie Publications, 1970 series) #v1#10 (December 1970) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#5 (August 1972)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#4 (August 1974)
- in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #5 (Summer 1992)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #15 - Snake Tales (August 2016)
-
The Improved Kiss
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marty Elkin (signed)
- Inks
- Marty Elkin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Baluk Khan, an evil Mongolian conqueror, enjoys destroying villages and butchering innocents. He invades the peaceful village of Uzruk and claims the king's daughter as his bride. Problem is, when he goes to kiss his new bride, he discovers that she is infected with plague flies.
- Reprints
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#4 (August 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#5 (October 1973)
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#4 (November 1976)
- in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v1#3 (May 1979)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v4#3 (July 1980), #v5#2 [3] (August 1981)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #6 (August 2013) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
Originally credited to Max Elkin, but there is no such artist as Max Elkin, only Elkan or Max (Maxwell) Elkan. The signing here says Marty Elkin. He is credited on Weird Terror by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. A mixup in names.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Blood of the Bat
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2.
Step into My Parlor
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3.
Mirror Image
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4.
The Improved Kiss
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5.
The Little Ghost
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Jim Van Dore
- Gregory Fischer
- Steinar Ådland
- Tony R. Rose
- Mike White
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Lou Mougin
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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