Weird Chills
#3
(November 1954)
Stanley Morse,
1954 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Key Publications
- Editing
- Harry Kantor
Terror On TV
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Vampiric monsters take over a television studio and begin attacking the cast and crew of the production. However, the audience watching the program live on their TV sets at home think it's part of the show.
- Reprints
-
in Ghoul Tales (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #17 (2013)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #4 (April 2013) which is reprinted
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Clumsy
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years. After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance. Unfortunatly his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her. When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity.
- Reprints
- in Shock (Stanley Morse, 1969 series) #v1#2 (July 1969) which is reprinted
- in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #1 (Winter 1989-1990)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #10 - Haunted Horror: Pre-Code Comics So Scary, They're Good! (Volume 3) (September 2015)
- in Stark Terror (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #3 (April 1971)
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in Stark Terror (Portman Distribution, 1979 series) #1 (October 1979) - in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #1 (Winter 1989-1990)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #8 (2010)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #10 - Haunted Horror: Pre-Code Comics So Scary, They're Good! (Volume 3) (September 2015)
-
Voice of Doom
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A parrot convinces his abusive owner that his beautiful pregnant wife is having an affair causing the unstable man to kill her and himself in a murder suicide.
- Reprints
- in Ghoul Tales (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970)
- in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #3 (Summer 1991)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #19 (2013)
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Fateful Ferry
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On a foggy night, a ferry is overrun by skeletal pirates that are centuries old.
The Bogey Man
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A young orphan is left in the care of his shady aunt and uncle. When the boy is convinced he sees a "bogeyman" in the coal bin in the basement, the couple convince the boy that it's real so he will go insane with fright and have to be institutionalized, thus allowing them to cash in on his inheritance with him being incapacitated. After the deed is done, the couple plan on spending the money. Problem is, there really was a monster in the coal bin who then proceeds to slaughter them.
- Reprints
- in Ghoul Tales (Stanley Morse, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #9 (2010)
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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.
Terror On TV
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2.
Clumsy
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3.
Voice of Doom
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4.
Fateful Ferry
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5.
The Bogey Man
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- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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