(December 1951)
Fawcett,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications, Inc.
- Editing
- Will Lieberson (credited) (executive editor); Roy Ald (credited) (editor); Al Jetter (credited) (art editor)
The Green Hands of Terror
Dr. Death / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am Doctor Death! Look into my eyes -- gaze deeply, and soon you will see horrors too terrible for the mind to contemplate!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Death (host)
- Synopsis
- Jenk and Slezak, two killers on the run, hide in a house where a chemist is experimenting with “synthetic protoplasm” – thus creating aggressive body parts which attack any intruder.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #30 (1962) [recolored splash page used as cover], #30 (1962) -
in Not Approved Horror (Avalon Communications, 1998 series) #1 (August 1998) -
in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #26 (2015)
-
The Devil's Due
Dr. Death / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No torture was too bestial to satisfy the warped sadism of the Nazi S. S. Colonel known by the dreaded pseudonym of -- The Hangman!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Death (host)
- Synopsis
- Sadistic Nazi colonel kills his prisoners of war single-handedly. The dead return to take revenge.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #30 (1962)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #26 (2015)
-
Pause for Vengeance
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jim Howeth was out on the terrace of the big hotel.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Jim Howeth visits the place of his ancestors and hopes to shake the family curse by confronting it. He succeeds with the help of his wife Anne.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
has header illo
The Weirdest Corpse of All Time!
Dr. Death / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In many strange and mystifying ways have I seen men cross over the threshold to eternal darkness!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Death (host)
- Synopsis
- Exterminator George Harris is troubled with his profession. All the killing gets to him. Things turn for the worse when mice start stalking him and he mysteriously begins to shrink.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #30 (1962)
- in Not Approved Horror (Avalon Communications, 1998 series) #1 (August 1998)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #26 (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Hames Ware.
Previous indexer suggested Sheldon Moldoff? for inks as well.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Have you ever been too frightened to scream.. too terror-stricken to move?"]
Dr. Death -
1.
The Green Hands of Terror
Dr. Death -
2.
The Devil's Due
Dr. Death -
3.
Pause for Vengeance
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4.
The Weirdest Corpse of All Time!
Dr. Death -
5.
Down with Crime
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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