The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
#23 - Lou Cameron's Unsleeping Dead
(July 2018)
IDW,
2010 Series
- Price
- 24.99 USD
- Pages
- 152
- On-sale Date
- 2018
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
-
Yoe Books!; IDW
- ISBN
-
978-1-63140-931-8
- Barcode
- 9781631409318 52499
- Editing
- Tillmann Courth
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #17 (February 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged detail from story "Realm of Lost Faces", page 6. On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged detail from story "The Moon Was Red", page 1. On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Title page and indicia.
[Introduction]
text article / 4.34 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In his introduction to Zombies (Yoe Books), Steve Banes ...
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of original art for cover to Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #17. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.33 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #17 (February 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.11 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Space Action (Ace Magazines, 1952 series) #1 (June 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.11 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Space Action (Ace Magazines, 1952 series) #2 (August 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint certain about artist identity. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.11 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Space Action (Ace Magazines, 1952 series) #3 (October 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint certain about artist identity. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
The Muscle Man
comic story / 1 page
- Reprints
- from So It Seems (Bell Syndicate) 1952-04-08
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of original art. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.33 page
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of original for Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #13 (HRN 112), page 1. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #8 (April 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.67 page
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #13 (October 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint certain about artist identity. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.33 page
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #13 (September 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint certain about artist identity. Illustrating text article [Introduction].
Lou Cameron: Pioneer of Pop Art
text article / 7 pages
- Script
- Tillmann Courth
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron; ? (photo)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron; ? (photo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #20 (May 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of original art. Illustrating article "Lou Cameron: Pioneer of Pop Art".
The War of the Worlds
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #124 [O] - The War of the Worlds (January 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Illustrating article "Lou Cameron: Pioneer of Pop Art".
The Bottle Imp
illustration / 0.67 page
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of original art for Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #116, page 1. Illustrating article "The Ink Bottle Imp".
Realm of Lost Faces
comic story / 6.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Soviet adviser Ivanovitch desecrates a magic Chinese mask and pays for it with the loss of his facial features. He gets shot by his fellow communists and has to look for his missing face in the afterworld.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #24 (May 1954)
-
Lair of the Silken Doom
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Silk merchant Stanley Raffel starts a business partnership with the mysterious and beautiful Lycia who provides him with the finest silk to be found. Little does Raffel realize that Lycia is a gigantic spider processing her victims' bodies into silk threads. But he will find out.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #25 (July 1954)
-
The Maze Master
comic story / 6.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Victor Rarlo is a sadist who loves puzzles and lets people perish in his fiendish mazes. Being challenged by a strange mystic, Rarlo travels into psychedelic mind-mazes and gets irreversibly caught in the maze of his own mind.
- Reprints
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #20 (April 1954)
-
The Moon Was Red
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In a French sea port the fishermen have to fight giant merman-creatures. Only old Fernande survives and puts a monster's severed finger on display.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #18 (May 1953)
-
From the Graves of the Unholy
comic story / 6.66 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A couple is captured and brought to a ghostly amusement park where they have to fight an evil witch.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #17 (February 1953)
-
Over My Dead Body
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In a scheme to get his insurance money, struggling painter Ben Ober agrees to a fake burial of his comatose body. Everything goes not exactly as planned, and in the end there's the devil to pay.
- Reprints
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #22 (September 1954)
-
Totem Justice
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On the Yukon, Mike Lucas strikes a gold mine. In his greed he murders his companion and his native guides. Totem god Unalka swears revenge upon the killer. Lucas loses everything and has to pay in the end.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #25 (March 1954)
-
The Phantom Gladiator
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Fate (host)
- Synopsis
- During their tour of Europe, Nat Murrano and his wife Grace are trapped in the ruins of Pompeii in Italy. They are the incarnations of a Gaul gladiator and a Roman noblewoman and have to fulfill deadly vows they made 2,000 years ago.
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #20 (October 1953)
-
Graveyard of Ghost Ships
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- American adventurer Gil Morgan comes across a pirate ship in the Sargasso sea, inhabited by ghost pirates under female captain Anne Bonny. Anne falls in love with the handsome stranger. They go sink some ships together. When Morgan tries to run away with the loot, he is killed by Captain Anne.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #21 (July 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Comparing Lou's signature to the title makes previous indexer believe that he was his own letterer.
We are talking about the title splash here, captions and balloons are Leroy lettered.
Code of the Shadowmaster
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Carnival silhouette artist Linc Mars learns to cut magic silhouettes from a burial sackcloth. He uses his abilities to amass riches, but runs out of magic and has to die by his own scissors.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #30 (January 1955)
-
The Horror of Hillory Hill
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The Hillorys seem to be a nice family - father, son and a mother confined to a wheelchair. But when night settles, people from the village die under gruesome circumstances. Because the Hillorys are a family of monsters.
- Reprints
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #21 (July 1954)
-
Fangs of the Fiend
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A dentist extracts all his rival's teeth and replaces them with dog's teeth - turning the man into a werewolf. After going on a rampage, the beast is caught and the teeth are removed again, rendering the man harmless. Only now the doctor got bitten and turns werewolf.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #27 (July 1954)
-
He Who Robs The Dead
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Grave robber Albert Torrence finds a treasure beneath a cemetery. As he spends the loot, Torrence learns that he has been framed by the dead. The jewels of a murdered woman lead him straight to the electric chair.
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #23 (June 1954)
-
The Night the Statues Walked
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A night guard at the museum discovers a secret formula that makes stone statues come alive and do his bidding. Tillston, the guard, uses his powers to kill people and avenge his brother's death by the verdict of a vice president. His murdering statues can be stopped by detective Dorne.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #19 (July 1953)
-
The 5 Lives of Otto Marlin
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Mad scientist Otto Marlin poisons Vivian Lake to learn about her previous lives. When cornered by the police, he poisons himself and is reincarnated in the middle ages. Marlin meets Lake again. They chase each other back through time.
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #19 (August 1953)
-
12 Hours to Doom
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Businessman Arthur Matlin discovers a magic sundial which summons Chronos, the spirit of time. With the help of Chronos, Matlin can travel some hours ahead into the future. He uses this ability to commit crimes. When the police catch up with him and destroy the sundial, Matlin is condemned to wander the future without ever returning.
- Reprints
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #18 (November 1953)
-
The Man Who Would Be Fate
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When power-mad Roger Dunning blackmails a conference of world leaders, he is thrown into a jail cell. Fate steps in and offers Dunning to take his place. For moments, Dunning controls the universe, but is quickly put to death by vengeful spirits. Fate takes control again.
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #24 (August 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Source given as The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #23.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged detail from story "Realm of Lost Faces", page 6. On endpapers.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
[no title indexed]
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3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
[Introduction]
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5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
[no title indexed]
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7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
[no title indexed]
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9.
[no title indexed]
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10.
The Muscle Man
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11.
[no title indexed]
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12.
[no title indexed]
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13.
[no title indexed]
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14.
[They Can Be Yours!]
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15.
[no title indexed]
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16.
Lou Cameron: Pioneer of Pop Art
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17.
[no title indexed]
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18.
The War of the Worlds
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19.
The Ink Bottle Imp
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20.
The Bottle Imp
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21.
Realm of Lost Faces
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22.
Lair of the Silken Doom
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23.
The Maze Master
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24.
The Moon Was Red
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25.
From the Graves of the Unholy
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26.
Over My Dead Body
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27.
Totem Justice
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28.
The Phantom Gladiator
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29.
Graveyard of Ghost Ships
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30.
Code of the Shadowmaster
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31.
The Horror of Hillory Hill
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32.
Fangs of the Fiend
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33.
He Who Robs The Dead
Fate -
34.
The Night the Statues Walked
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35.
The 5 Lives of Otto Marlin
Fate -
36.
12 Hours to Doom
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37.
The Man Who Would Be Fate
Fate -
38.
[no title indexed]
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39.
[no title indexed]
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40.
[no title indexed]
Lou Cameron was a groundbreaking art master ...
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- Claus Simonsen
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