(December 1953)
Toby,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1953-09-04
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Minoan Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
A Minoan Magazine
- Editing
- Mell Lazarus (credited as Mel Lazarus) (art director); Elliott Caplin (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 320.
The Slasher!
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A meek bookkeeper lives his life in a fantasy world pretending to be every hero he reads about in the newspaper headlines. When a slasher starts prowling the streets leaving behind a trail of victims, the bookkeeper plans to go after him as some brave hero like the kind he reads about.
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #34 (June 2018)
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Pool of the Skeletons
A Tale of Horror / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#1 (February 1975) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#4 (August 1977)
-
in Pit of Evil (Gredown, 1975 ? series) #10 ([1978])
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Doorway to Darkness
text story / 2 pages
- Reprints
- from The Purple Claw (Toby, 1953 series) #1 (January 1953)
-
The Death Ship
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Tales of Terror (Toby, 1952 series) #1 (1952)
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The Big Snake!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mel Keefer (signed)
- Inks
- Mel Keefer
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #3 (November 1952)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Snake That Held a City Captive!
-
1.
The Slasher!
A Tale of Horror -
2.
Pool of the Skeletons
A Tale of Horror -
3.
The Witness!
A Tale of Horror -
4.
Doorway to Darkness
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5.
The Death Ship
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6.
The Big Snake!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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