(December 1952)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-10-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions, Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- Joe Archibald (editor-in-chief. uncredited)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 5.
The Pit of Horror
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1323
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- New York, the 1870s. In the gambling establishment of Mr. Burns people are killed and disposed of in a rat pit in the cellar. The dead return and force Burns to a tour of the pit himself.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Dancer from the Beyond
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1305
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The dancer Lee Trantor is haunted by his former partner Annette and her desire to dance to the death.
- Reprints
The Clutching Weed
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Swimming in the ocean and struggling with sea weed, a man reminisces about his childhood nemesis and wonders if that boy's spirit may be responsible for the clutching weed.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Information for this sequence from Steve Saaf via the GCD Error Tracker.
Bride of Death
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1322
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joseph; Delores Martiz; Mario
- Synopsis
- Joseph needs a fresh corpse for his experiments, which is provided when Delores Martiz dies on her wedding day. He brings her back from the dead, and then once more, but cannot win her for himself.
- Reprints
-
in Seduction of the Innocent! (Eclipse, 1985 series) #2 (November 1985) - in The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics (Running Press Book Publishers, 2008 series) (2008)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #12 (August 2014)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #16 - Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead! and Much More! (Volume 4) (August 2016)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
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The Ghost That Warned a King
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1185
- Genre
- non-fiction; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- James IV of Scotland (1473-1513)
- Synopsis
- Although warned by a ghost, King James IV. of Scotland goes to war and dies.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Original art has annotations:
4/14/52 pencils (followed by an "s" in a circle)
4/18/52 lettering (followed by a "J")
5/9/52 inking (followed by an "s" in a circle)
Death Drum
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1347
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Drummer Chip Conway comes into possession of a magic jungle drum which makes him play "like a god". Downside is, Chip has to kill for his newly won ability.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Information for this sequence from Steve Saaf via the GCD Error Tracker.
The Origin of "He Kicked the Bucket"
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1338
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Origin of the phrase explained. A suicidal man failed to hang himself and got so angered that he kicked a bucket standing next to his feet. Losing his balance, the man fell and hit his head fatally.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Betraying Hands
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1.
The Pit of Horror
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2.
The Dancer from the Beyond
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3.
The Clutching Weed
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4.
Bride of Death
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5.
The Ghost That Warned a King
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6.
Death Drum
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7.
The Origin of "He Kicked the Bucket"
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tim Barnes
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Steven Rowe
- Jim Van Dore
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