(December 1953)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-10-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions, Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 187.
Serpent of Doom
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1744
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Lydia longs for riches and enters into a pact with snake god Seth. Covering her murderous tracks, Seth grants her fame and fortune. When Lydia herself begins to turn into a snake, she plunges into despair.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Spectral Sergeant
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1653
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; war
- Synopsis
- A sergeant's phantom warns his soldier buddies about an imminent German attack in WW I.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
Horror's Scrapbook
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B-1768
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Accounts of weird occurrences and incidents.
The Living-Dead of Kulatum!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- B-1765
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In Brazil an explorer discovers the pyramids of Manoa and the cult of the living-dead. His escape is only temporary, for he is lost in the jungle.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits per original art
Weird Maze
activity / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1746
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #27 (April 2017)
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Conspiracy with Death
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1750
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A sailor pays a witch doctor to put a jinx on his rival. The sailer gets the girl, but refuses to pay his debt. It's his turn to be jinxed now.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
The Last Dance
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1699
- Genre
- horror-suspense; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A cavalry soldier killed by Apaches returns from the dead to prevent his girl from marrying someone else.
- Reprints
Shanghai Ship
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-1684
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In an attempt to kidnap sailors for a cargo ship loaded with contraband, the kidnappers are detected and drown. They wake up in the land of the dead - and are shanghaied for service on the "Flying Dutchman".
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story features two small illustrations.
The Gypsy Curse
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1741
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Nogoodnik Lou disposes of his difigured wife and is therefore faced with a gypsy curse. He won't find happiness as fate strikes pushing him into poverty and madness.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Conspiracy with Death
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1.
Serpent of Doom
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2.
The Spectral Sergeant
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3.
Horror's Scrapbook
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4.
The Living-Dead of Kulatum!
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5.
Weird Maze
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6.
Conspiracy with Death
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7.
The Last Dance
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8.
Shanghai Ship
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9.
The Gypsy Curse
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10.
Nightmare Island
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Michael Hoskin
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Jim Van Dore
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