(February 1953 [February 1954])
Charlton,
1954 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (credited as Alfred V. Fago) (executive editor); Blanche Hodges (editor, credited)
Issue Notes
Title picked up from Fawcett. Indicia actually states "February 1953", but this must be incorrect based on dates of last issues from Fawcett.
[no title indexed]
Dr. Haunt / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Haunt (host, vignette)
Horror In Duplicate
comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Clutching fingers reached out from another world... stretching for the unwary... piling terror upon terror!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Evil doubles from another dimension break into our world and substitute people with their duplicates.
The Corpse In the House
Dr. Haunt / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was evil in that house, evil beyond the powers of reason and a grim secret not even stone walls could hold!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Haunt (host)
- Synopsis
- Tom kills and buries his rival Gil in the house he build for himself and Paula. But the corpse proves to be restless, ruining the walls and ceilings and even the wedding ceremony at home.
- Reprints
-
in Weird (Avalon Communications, 1999 series) #1 (1999 [Circa May 21, 2001])
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Indexer Notes
This is Bob McCarty, though, a Fawcett regular appearing one last time in this book, scraped together from Fawcett horror leftovers. Previous indexer suggested Kirk on pencils and inks.
Horror Host on splash (and cover) is probably a "Mummy" inventory feature from Fawcett's Beware! Terror Tales.
Monsters of the Deep
comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's Jeff Corby! He's returned with his new friends -- to devour us all!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Ace Malet and his jewel-thieving thugs take refuge on a schooner off the Newfoundland banks. But cannibal sea creatures lurk on "Dead Man's Reef" and attack the crew wave after wave.
Legend of Lost Lake
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Ah, yes, my friends. It was just such a night that Amie Heville returned from a visit to her sick sweetheart -- a wild desolate night with the wind howling down from the hills!"
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- At the campfire Pierre Manton invents a ghost story which takes on a life of its own.
Indexer Notes
Sequence occurs after 1st page of "Monsters of the Deep" story.
The Forest of Death
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When grim Death, the stalker of all men, pulls the strings of fate, only the silent giants of the forest primeval are entrusted to keep his secret!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Lumberjack Jacque DuSac kills his mate Pierre for his money. When Jacque starts seeing ghosts he returns to the scene of the crime and meets his fate.
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested Kirk ? for pencils and inks.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Dr. Haunt -
1.
Horror In Duplicate
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2.
The Corpse In the House
Dr. Haunt -
3.
Monsters of the Deep
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4.
Legend of Lost Lake
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5.
The Forest of Death
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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