Ghost Comics
#4
(Fall 1952)
Fiction House,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fiction House Inc.
- Brand
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Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Ghost Comics (Superior, 1952 ? series) #4 -
in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010) - in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #11 - Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House (October 2015)
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in Ghost Comics (ilovecomics, 2021 series) #4 (2022)
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Death is a Dream
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Female Chinese agent gets shot dead, but her ghost leads her brother to do the right thing.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Frank Motler, September 2008.
No World For Me
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Synopsis
- Criminal lands with a rocket ship on Mars. He is being questioned by the Martians and sent back to earth to atone for his crimes.
- Reprints
- in Ghost Comics (ilovecomics, 2021 series) #4 (2022)
- From ?
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Frank Motler, September 2008.
The Haunted House
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- Two kids surprise two robbers in an allegedly haunted house. They can call the police and the gangsters are apprehended.
Azerbaijan
Stamp Page / text article / 0.33 page
- Script
- Sidney Elias
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- An article about stamps issued by the small country of Azerbaijan.
Flee the Mad Furies
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Drew Murdoch (signed)
- Pencils
- Alex Blum; Eisner and Iger Studio (as Iger Studios)
- Inks
- Alex Blum; Eisner and Iger Studio (as Iger Studios)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Gypsy girl Rowena summons swamp ghosts with black magic to dispose of people who get in her way. Drew Murdoch can stop her by turning the evil spirits against Rowena.
- Reprints
- from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #81 (November 1945) [story is cut 1 page short]
-
in Jungle Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #28 - in Ghost Comics (ilovecomics, 2021 series) #4 (2022)
- A reworked "Ghost Gallery" feature.
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Frank Motler, September 2008.
Cover story.
The Trumpet of Valkyrie
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rafael Astarita; Eisner and Iger Studio (as Iger Studios)
- Inks
- Rafael Astarita; Eisner and Iger Studio (as Iger Studios)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- American flyer is caught behind Soviet lines and aided in battle by the local folklore goddess Valencia.
- Reprints
- from Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #73 (September 1946) [story is cut 1 page short]
- in Jungle Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #28
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #37 (2018)
- in Ghost Comics (ilovecomics, 2021 series) #4 (2022)
- A reworked "Ghost Squadron" feature.
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Frank Motler, September 2008.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Death is a Dream
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2.
No World For Me
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3.
The Haunted House
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4.
Azerbaijan
Stamp Page -
5.
Flee the Mad Furies
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6.
The Trumpet of Valkyrie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Salvatore Carotenuto
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
- Glenn MacKay
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Keith Smith
- Mike White
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