(June 1953)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-04-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 3.
The Man Who Could Not Die!
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1620
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man hires a hitman to kill him because he is actually 5000 years old and wants to die.
- Reprints
Weird Facts
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B 1601
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Apparently true facts such as the recorded notes of a banshee's wail.
Me, Ghost
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1628
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A guy uses his girlfriend as a human shield against a robber.
- Reprints
-
in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #625-A - Adventures into Darkness Readers Collection (2019)
- in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Ghosts (IDW, 2019 series) (October 2019)
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The Hangman Who Was Hanged
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1264?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- John Price
- Synopsis
- Public executioner in England is hanged himself.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
True story?
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Strange Footprints
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed)
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Job Number
- B-1587
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Klondike gold prospector kills his fellow prospectors and ends up haunted by their ghosts.
- Reprints
Spooky Stickers
activity / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Contains a shape assembly game, a maze, a connect the dots activity and a crossword.
- Reprints
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #27 (April 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Other half of page is ad for FUNman's Fun Club.
Angkor City of Mystery
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1291
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Mystery behind the origins of the city of Angkor in Cambodia.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Evil Cornucopia
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B 1627
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man gets a cornucopia that can protect him from harm.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Man Who Could Not Die
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1.
The Man Who Could Not Die!
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2.
[Dubble Bubble ad]
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3.
Weird Facts
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4.
Me, Ghost
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5.
The Hangman Who Was Hanged
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6.
Walking Dead
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7.
Strange Footprints
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8.
Spooky Stickers
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9.
Angkor City of Mystery
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10.
The Evil Cornucopia
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11.
Romance of Death
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Jochen G.
- Michael Hoskin
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Matt Tauber
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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