Witches Tales
#23
(February 1954)
Harvey,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Witches Tales Inc.
- Editing
- Leon Harvey
Issue Notes
Date misprinted as February 1953 in indicia, as noted by Mike Catron via the GCD Error Tracker.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
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Dear Readers
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Leon Harvey ?
- Pencils
- Bill Benulis ?; Howard Nostrand; Joe Certa ?; Bob Powell
- Inks
- Jack Abel; Howard Nostrand; Bob Powell ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Introductory text with small partial panels from this issue's stories.
Henry Small.... Huckster
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; crime; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Henry Small
- Synopsis
- Henry Small is a con man who will talk his way out of any predicament, until he is finally shot dead. Facing the devil Small strikes his next bargain.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Sid Jacobson's name is on a billboard on the splash panel disguised as Sid J. Kobson, indicating he probably wrote or edited the story or the comic. Another name on the board is "Basil G. Umblower." Noted by Gary Watson, May 2008.
Previous art credit was Bill Benulis and Jack Abel by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Mister Master
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- A man starts seeing people who aren't there and lands in an asylum.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
-
[no title indexed]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As I was going along, long, long...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
-
Solomon Grundy
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Criminal version of the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme.
Ivan's-Woe
A Boo of the Month / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sir Ivan Gwaine of Hampshire; Sir Gerald; Elizabeth; Fitzhugh; Sir Hugo Lavon of Blackmore; King John
- Synopsis
- Sir Hugo duels Sir Ivan after a slight from Elizabeth. Ivan wins, but is horribly disfigured.
- Reprints
-
in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #2 - in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
- in They Came from the 50’s (Malibu, 1990 series) (1990)
- in Tales from the Edge (Vanguard Productions, 1993 series) #1 (June 1993)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #8 - Howard Nostrand's Nightmares (November 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
"Boo of the Month" (Ivanhoe parody)
Thanks to Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine for the artist information.
The Wig-Maker
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Lem Boone is a famous wig-maker. The secret to his life-like wigs is that he robs graves and scalps the dead. Boone goes too far when he desecrates the burial mound of an American native warrior.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover story
Doomsday
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The night watchman of an art gallery is frightened by the exhibited horror art.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
-
[no title indexed]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A farmer went trotting on his gray mare,...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
-
[no title indexed]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See a pin and pick it up,...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Criminal version of a nursery rhyme.
So What Next
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Receptionist Dona Chepper sits all alone by the phone, fearing that the madman terrorizing the town might come to visit her.
- Reprints
- in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #43 (Mayo 31 de 1955)
- in They Came from the 50’s (Malibu, 1990 series) (1990)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #2 - Bob Powell's Terror (November 2011)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Dear Readers
-
2.
Henry Small.... Huckster
-
3.
Mister Master
-
4.
["As I was going along, long, long..."]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes -
5.
Solomon Grundy
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes -
6.
Ivan's-Woe
A Boo of the Month -
7.
The Wig-Maker
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8.
Doomsday
-
9.
["A farmer went trotting on his gray mare,..."]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes -
10.
["See a pin and pick it up,..."]
Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes -
11.
So What Next
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Mike Nielsen
- Ben Samuels
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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