(December 1952)
Fawcett,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-09-24
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Will Lieberson (executive editor); Roy Ald (editor); Al Jetter (art editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 236.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Evans (illustration)
- Inks
- George Evans (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. House ad for Strange Suspense Stories.
Curiosity Killed the Ghost
comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The ghost of Markham Avery leaves the graveyard. He ventures into the village to solve the mystery of his own murder.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #60 (1965 ?) [Splash page used as cover.], #60 (1965 ?) -
in Ghostly Tales (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #8 ([May 1979] ?)
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Beyond the Grave
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The stage magician Renaldo experiments with suspended animation and goes into a coma. But his assistant Jason considers leaving him that way and taking over Renaldo's act.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #60 (1965 ?)
-
Beast of the Borgias
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Mark Borgay goes treasure hunting in the ruins of an Italian villa. He discovers a bat-like creature which poisons him to death.
Indexer Notes
has header illo
The Man Who Outdistanced Death!
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Chief Whitecould Comatok; Georgie Kerrik
- Synopsis
- Chief Whitecloud Comatok is the greatest long distance runner on record. When rival Georgie Kerrik finds out his secret of success, he is caught in a race for life itself.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #62 (1965 ?), #62 (1965 ?)
-
in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010) - in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #16 (March 2015)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #24 - Haunted Horror: Nightmare of Doom and Much More! (Volume 6) (March 2018)
-
- Keywords
- American Indian; Seminole; track
Indexer Notes
A cropped version of the splash panel is used for the cover.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Evans (illustration)
- Inks
- George Evans (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. House ad for Worlds of Fear.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[The Man Who Outdistanced Death]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Curiosity Killed the Ghost
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3.
Beyond the Grave
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4.
Beast of the Borgias
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5.
The Man Who Outdistanced Death!
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6.
[no title indexed]
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7.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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