Worlds of Fear
#10
(June 1953)
Fawcett,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications, Inc.
- Editing
- Will Lieberson (executive editor); V.A. Provisiero (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010) -
in Pre-Code Classics: Worlds of Fear (PS, 2017 series) #2 (May 2017)
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Indexer Notes
Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008)
Time's Secret
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Archeologists get trapped inside a tomb at an Egyptian excavation site.
The Fleshless Ones
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Policeman Perry Mahoney witnesses a kidnapping. Skeletal creatures are taking humans captive in a cave and transform them into the walking dead. These fleshless ones come after Mahoney and his fiancée Peggy.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #64 (1965 ?) [splash page used as cover, clothing added to skeletons], #64 (1965 ?)
-
in Spectre (Arédit-Artima, 1967 series) #3 (octobre 1967) - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
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Indexer Notes
Writer credits by Martin O'Hearn.
Witchcraft in Old England
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Account of the witch-hunting activities of King James I. in England.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #63 (1965 ?)
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #7 (octobre 1969)
-
The Devil's Side Show
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man who can't make up his mind about anything stumbles into a midway - and is kept there by the mysterious barker who transforms him into one of the attractions.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #63 (1965 ?)
-
The Juju Wishing Doll
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Death
- Synopsis
- A pair of lovers on Haiti come into possession of a voodoo doll. Their careless handling of the powerful artefact will be their doom.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #63 (1965 ?)
-
in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #4 ([August 1972])
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Indexer Notes
The story is introduced by the (unnamed) Dr. Death, the horror-host from This Magazine is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series).
How to Become a Werewolf
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Guideline to ritual for becoming a werewolf.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #63 (1965 ?)
-
The Eyes in His Hand
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Corker; Ebber
- Synopsis
- The boy Corker enters a marble tournament to help out his poor widowed mother. His marbles are the magic glass eyes of their sadistic landlord Mr. Ebber.
- Reprints
- in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #8 ([no date]) [Page 1, panel 1 used as cover.], #8 ([no date])
- in Spectre (Arédit-Artima, 1967 series) #4 (janvier 1968)
- in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #3 ([June 1972])
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #3 (February 2013) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
The reprint in Haunted Horror #3 gives credit to Paul Gattuso on pencils, and a tentative Sheldon Moldoff for inks.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Time's Secret
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2.
The Fleshless Ones
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3.
Witchcraft in Old England
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4.
The Devil's Side Show
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5.
The Juju Wishing Doll
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6.
How to Become a Werewolf
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7.
The Eyes in His Hand
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