(March 1954)
Stanley Morse,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-12-23
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gillmor Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
- A Key Magazine
- Editing
- Stanley Morse
Issue Notes
Possible arrival date based on front cover stamp of indexer's copy.
Epitaph/Destiny's Double Deal
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1222 - The Critical Weird Mysteries: Volume 2 - in Fifties Terror (Malibu, 1988 series) #5 (March 1989) [main panel only]
-
Dream!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man is abducted and taken into the dank bowels of the city where he is tortured by a strange cult and then released.
- Reprints
The Garcon
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gerald Altman (signed) [as G. A.]
- Inks
- Gerald Altman (signed) [as G. A.]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Fifties Terror (Malibu, 1988 series) #2 (November 1988)
- in They Came from the 50’s (Malibu, 1990 series) (1990)
-
Out of Focus
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Lee M. Pettroe
- Reprints
- in Shock (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#1 (May 1969)
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #5 ([October 1973])
-
Epitaph!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Edgar Clay; Miriam Clay
- Synopsis
- Edgar Clay is distraught that his faithful wife Miriam fell to her death from a cliff when he was away at work. Overcome by lonely grief, he visits the cemetery she is buried at to feel consoltation. As night falls, he sees the silent dead rising from their graves rewriting their epitaphs to reveal the truths about how they lived their lives. He's shocked to see Miriam write her epitaph revealing that she fell off the cliff waiting her lover!
- Reprints
- in Chilling Tales of Horror (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#1 (June 1969)
- in Ghoul Tales (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #10 (March 2014)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #16 - Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead! and Much More! (Volume 4) (August 2016)
-
- Keywords
- ghost; graveyard; headstone
Indexer Notes
Inspired by "La Morte" (1887) by Guy de Maupassant, translated as "Was It A Dream?" in English (1910).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Epitaph/Destiny's Double Deal
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1.
Dream!
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2.
The Garcon
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3.
The Plan!
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4.
Out of Focus
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5.
Epitaph!
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6.
Destiny's Double Deal!
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