(June 1954)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1954-04-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Visual Editions, Inc.
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1954 Periodicals, page 3.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Un Faux Livre (Delcourt, 2017 series) #[nn] (2017) [page 2 (minus 3rd strip)]
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The Garden of Evil!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- VB-5
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What was the secret of Pietro Mancini' art?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Pietro Mancini; Daviso; Medusa the Gorgon
- Synopsis
- A jealous sculptor breaks into the house of his famous colleague and rival to learn his secret of success. It has to do with the artist's wife, who lives in utter reclusion.
- Reprints
Murder by Movie
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1313
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the early 1940s...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Artie Kass
- Synopsis
- A gangster goes into hiding, but is discovered because he plays bit parts in Hollywood movies.
- Reprints
Weird Watson
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B-1589
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #26 (January 2017)
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The Outcast
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio ?; Mike Esposito ?
- Inks
- Mike Esposito ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Herb Field
- Job Number
- VB-4
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mitch was ugly to the core of his being!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mitch; Gina
- Synopsis
- Mitch, a brutal killer, makes a deal with the devil to live forever. When Mitch defies his obligations, Satan takes away all his possessions and condemns him to a life of misery.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Possible Esposito pencils/inks per Nick Caputo. Saltarella previously credited Mastroserio with both pencils and inks.
The Living Brain
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Terry Hendrix (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As I climbed the winding path...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Harry Seeberling; Uncle Elbert; Bill
- Synopsis
- Mad scientist uses the brain of his assistant to create a thinking robot.
- Reprints
The Frozen Death
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1865
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come on, darling...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Paula; Mack Lane; Baron von Neufelt
- Synopsis
- A woman captured in a block of ice comes to life again after fifty years. She only can survive in a cold environment. Exposed to heat she starts to decay.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Roussos identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Nick Caputo suspects Bill Molno may have pencilled.
Horror's Scrapbook
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- VB-1
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Weird facts
- Reprints
The Curse of the Ancient Devil Gods
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1864
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We've found them...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Adam Stokes
- Synopsis
- And then there were none. Adventurers in the jungle get decimated by a native curse.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
Part-time Lunatic
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1407
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A man is sentenced to spend his nights at an "asylum for the insane" because he is believed to be not normal after dark.
- Reprints
Ghosts in the Sky
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B-1849
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the nigh of January 17, 1893...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Allegedly true ghostly apparitions
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Frozen Death
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1.
The Garden of Evil!
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2.
Murder by Movie
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3.
Weird Watson
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4.
The Outcast
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5.
The Living Brain
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6.
The Frozen Death
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7.
Horror's Scrapbook
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8.
The Curse of the Ancient Devil Gods
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9.
Part-time Lunatic
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10.
Ghosts in the Sky
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11.
The Corpse Candle
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Michael Hoskin
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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