This Magazine Is Haunted #1

(October 1951)

The Curse of Carnoc Castle (Table of Contents: 1)

Dr. Death / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Evans

Inks

George Evans

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Hamilton ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am Doctor Death! And through my eyes you shall see horror that defines comprehension!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Death (host); Delena (newspaper reporter); Mario (newspaper reporter); Joseph (coachman); Duke of Allister (2 centuries dead); Duke of Allister (current day)

Synopsis

After two hundred years the Duke of Allister rises newly born from his casket at Carnoc Castle. Now immortal, he seeks to lead a second life. But the forces of witchcraft which granted him his gift return to haunt the Duke.

Reprints

• in This Magazine Is Haunted (Charlton, 1954 series) #21 (November 1954)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #30 (1963)

Keywords

immortality; touch of death

Stand-in for Death (Table of Contents: 2)

Dr. Death / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Bernard Baily

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

No one knows when I, Doctor Death ---- may strike!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Death (host); Karl Danner; Alec Norden; Helene Norden; Lew Tilden; Doctor Feder

Synopsis

Karl Danner steals the coat of a dying man and uses the ticket he finds in its pockets to escape aboat a ferry. Unfortunately he has chosen the ferry of the dead and is doomed to ride along.

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #24
• in This Magazine Is Haunted (Charlton, 1954 series) #20 (September 1954)
• in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 (1961) [Page 1, panel 1 used as cover.], #9 (1961)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #30 (1963)
• in This Comic Is Haunted (Gredown, 1976 ? series) #3 ([1978] ?)

Keywords

ferry ticket

Doctor MacCready's Little Men (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Al Schutzer

Pencils

? (title illustration)

Inks

? (title illustration)

Colors

? (title illustration)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am writing this message for you quickly, before I am stricken with another of my headaches, or before one of the guards suspects what I am doing.

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. MacCready

Synopsis

In Dr. MacCready's sanatorium for the mentally ill the inmates are shrunken to keep them at bay. An investigating reporter gets involved and ends up in a bird cage.

Reprints

• in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 (1961)
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #30 (1963)

Keywords

bird cage; Macreadol

The Coffin-Maker! (Table of Contents: 4)

Dr. Death / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

IT was an evening like any other --- when Carlotta heard the strange, unearthly, demoniacal laughter in the musky room of the newly dead!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Death (host); Carlotta Frawley; Hiram Frawley

Synopsis

Beautiful Carlotta marries undertaker Hiram for his money. Things get dangerous when she finds out that her husband made a pact with the devil in person.

Reprints

• in This Magazine Is Haunted (Charlton, 1954 series) #19 (August 1954)
which is reprinted
• in Shriek of Despair (Gredown, 1983 ? series) ([1983])
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #30 (1963)
• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #22

Keywords

coffin; jade figurine; undertaker

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Worlds Beyond (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)