This Magazine Is Haunted #5

(June 1952)

The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp! (Table of Contents: 1)

Dr. Death / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Evans

Inks

George Evans

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Something moved in the leeching mud --- slimy and serpentilian!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Death (host); Goldie Ricon

Synopsis

The gangster Goldie Ricon escapes from death row into the Skontong swamplands. There he gets bitten by a zombie and from then on is haunted by terrible zombie encounters. Driven almost insane, Goldie returns to death row - and to Skontong swamp.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #31 (1963), #31 (1963)
• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #17 (July 1974)
• in Ghostly Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #11 ([May 1980]) [Splash page: original indicia removed - artwork extended at bottom. Story title and caption rearranged, and editorial credits deleted. “This Magazine is Haunted” banner removed from every page of story. Illustration of Doctor Death (host) deleted from pp1.]
• in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010)

Keywords

electrocution; execution; gangster; prison; swamp

The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins! (Table of Contents: 2)

Dr. Death / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Hamilton

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Is there someone whom you hate?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Death (host)

Synopsis

Country boy Hawkins comes to death in a fight with rival bully Withers. The victim's oversized shoes appear as ghostly accessoires and chase the evildoer around. He will die the same way poor Hawkins went.

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #3
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #31 (1963), #63 (1965 ?)
• in Nightveil's Cauldron of Horror (AC, 1989 series) #1 (1989)

Horror at Midnight (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

John Martin (credited)

Pencils

? (header illustration)

Inks

? (header illustration)

Colors

? (header illustration)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Doctor Homer Wiggins leafed through the list of available houses at Clem Farley's real estate establishment in Henshaw.

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Dr. Wiggins, new in town, is called to the home of the recluse Cadden. There the devil joins the two men, demanding a soul.

Reprints

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #35 (1963)

The Last Man (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Earl Hammer Jr.

Pencils

Myron Fass ?

Inks

Myron Fass ?

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Hamilton

First Line of Dialogue or Text

They had a glimpse of something horrible -- beyond imagination -- something that stemmed from beyond the grave -- and after that, all were marked for death!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Death (host); Eddie (death); Mike (death); Joe (death); Pete (death)

Synopsis

A small carnival pitches it's tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #31 (1963)
• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #16 (June 1974)
• in FemForce in the House of Horror (AC, 1989 series) #1 (1989) [in black and white; original in color]
• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #14

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

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