The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
#4 - Jack Cole's Deadly Horror
(July 2013)
IDW,
2010 Series
- Price
- 24.99 USD
- Pages
- 172
- On-sale Date
- 2013
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
-
Yoe Books!
- ISBN
-
978-1-61377-656-8
- Barcode
- 9781613776568 52499
- Editing
- Craig Yoe
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged detail from story "Death Prowls the Streets" (Web of Evil #8), pg. 1. On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged detail from story "Hangman's Horror" (Web of Evil #2), pg. 1. On endpapers.
[The infamous "comic book" panel ...]
text article / 13 pages
- Script
- Craig Yoe ?
- Pencils
- Jack Cole (illustrations); ? (photographs)
- Inks
- Jack Cole (illustrations); ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Introductory article with many illustrations. Uncredited.
Goddess of Murder
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #3 (March 1953)
-
Monster of the Mist
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #4 (May 1953)
-
The Man Who Died Twice
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #5 (July 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #6 (September 1953)
-
The Strangling Hands
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #7 (October 1953)
-
Custodian of the Dead
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #1 (November 1952)
-
Hangman's Horror
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jeb Daws; Dean Slade; Beach; Gendley; Hawkins; Daniel Slade
- Synopsis
- Jeb Daws is looking to run for mayor in a small town to restore democratic processes. The current corrupt mayor and his cronies want to get rid of him and frame him for murder. They then testify against him in court resulting in a guilty sentence. Jeb is condemned to die by hanging the next day. Before he dies he swears he will get revenge. Later that evening, Jebs' hanging corpse is gone and people swear that they see his ghost roaming the streets at night...
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #2 (January 1953)
-
- Keywords
- ghost; hanging; scaffold
The Corpse That Wouldn't Die!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Andrew Granger; Carl Granger; Charles Venable
- Synopsis
- Charles Venable is hired to translate an ancient book by Carl Granger in the hopes that it can reveal the secret to stoping his brother, Andrew.
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #2 (January 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Fred Snyder, via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4603), notes a very strong resemblance between this story and the Clark Ashton Smith short story, "The Return of the Sorcerer".
The Killer from Saturn
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #3 (March 1953)
-
Goddess of Murder
comic story / 7 pages
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #3 (March 1953)
-
Monster of the Mist
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #4 (May 1953)
-
The Man Who Died Twice
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #5 (July 1953)
-
The Vengeful Curse
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Andrew Craven leaves his friend Dave Burk to die in a hole after claiming the riches they were digging for together for himself and taunts Dave that he will marry his fiance Elsa. Before dying, Dave puts a curse on Andrew. After Andrew builds a home above the hole where Dave's corpse lies, the curse comes true destroying Andrew and Elsa.
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #5 (July 1953)
-
Orgy of Death
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #6 (September 1953)
-
The Spectre's Face
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #6 (September 1953)
-
The Strangling Hands
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #7 (October 1953)
-
Death Prowls the Streets
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #8 (November 1953)
-
Valley of Horror
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A couple take a shortcut through 'Perdition Valley' after seeing it on a road map found near a car crash site. The car accident victim was a known racketeer. Little do the couple realize that Perdition Valley is a town for the damned dead.
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #8 (November 1953)
-
Killer from Beyond
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #9 (December 1953)
-
A Pact with the Devil
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #9 (December 1953)
-
Death's Highway
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #10 (January 1954)
-
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #10 (January 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. Editors of this reprint book must have some clue that Jack Cole was involved, though.
The Monster They Couldn't Kill
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #11 (February 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged detail from story "A Pact with the Devil" (Web of Evil #9), pg. 1. On endpapers.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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1.
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2.
[no title indexed]
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3.
[Indicia]
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4.
[The infamous "comic book" panel ...]
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5.
Goddess of Murder
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6.
Monster of the Mist
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7.
The Man Who Died Twice
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8.
[no title indexed]
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9.
The Strangling Hands
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10.
Custodian of the Dead
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11.
Hangman's Horror
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12.
The Corpse That Wouldn't Die!
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13.
The Killer from Saturn
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14.
Goddess of Murder
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15.
Monster of the Mist
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16.
The Man Who Died Twice
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17.
The Vengeful Curse
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18.
Orgy of Death
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19.
The Spectre's Face
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20.
The Strangling Hands
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21.
Death Prowls the Streets
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22.
Valley of Horror
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23.
Killer from Beyond
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24.
A Pact with the Devil
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25.
Death's Highway
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26.
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
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27.
The Monster They Couldn't Kill
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28.
Yoe Books!
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[no title indexed]
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[no title indexed]
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[Jack Cole's horror comics ...]
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- Alan Hutchinson
- Claus Simonsen
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