(July 1953)
Pines,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-05-19
- 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 115
The Corpse That Came to Dinner
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1645
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A young couple returns from their honeymoon. They learn that a friend has committed suicide, because he had wanted to marry the girl. The friend's corpse climbs out of his grave and lays siege to the couple's apartment.
- Reprints
-
in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #7 (Winter 1992-1993) - in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010)
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The Human Hyena of Pirra
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B-1659
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Hunter shoots a were-hyena in Northern Africa.
Indexer Notes
top half of page is an ad for Slinky toy with art by the Double Bubble Fleer artist.
Art id by Ger Apeldoorn.
The Horror of Candle Lodge
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- B-1642
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Ghost of US-American freedom fighter slays the descendants of British soldiers who lured him into a trap.
Battle of Edge Hill
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B-1630
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Eye-witnesses confirm the "fata morgana" of a ghost battle in the sky.
Indexer Notes
top half of page is an ad for Funman prize company
Till Death Do Us Part
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1622
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Charles finds out that her sister's husband is keeping him from his inheritance by pretending the sister still to be alive. She died some time ago and is paraded through town as a veiled mummy.
Indexer Notes
Art credits from discussion on GCD-main (April 12, 2011).
High Hung the Witch
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- John Marvin
- Pencils
- John Celardo ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- John Celardo ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Barkham in New England. Cob Hathorne, descendant of a witch hunter, comes to visit and is killed by a surviving witch who stayed young through the centuries.
- Reprints
- in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010) [splash panel from "The Corpse That Came to Dinner"]
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Gunnvor the Sorceress
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- B-1639
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Account of Icelandic saga about madwoman Gunnvor, who could not be killed and haunted her people in many different shapes.
Hanged by the Neck
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1640
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The magician El Rondo grows jealous of his assistant and hangs him on stage (during a magic routine). Haunted by the man's ghost, El Rondo meets his fate getting paid back in kind.
- Reprints
- in Seduction of the Innocent! (Eclipse, 1985 series) #1 (November 1985)
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The Spanish Steed
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Wanting to tame a legendary gray stallion, a sportsman is suddenly faced with a centaur.
Indexer Notes
Mort Meskin (pencils) and George Roussos (inks) first suggested by Ger Apeldoorn. Roussos (pencil and inks) per Dick Limacher and Steven Brouwer.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Corpse That Came to Dinner
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2.
The Human Hyena of Pirra
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3.
The Horror of Candle Lodge
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4.
Battle of Edge Hill
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5.
Till Death Do Us Part
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6.
High Hung the Witch
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7.
Gunnvor the Sorceress
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8.
Hanged by the Neck
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9.
The Spanish Steed
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- James Ludwig
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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