(September 1953)
Farrell,
1953 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale date
- 1953
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Four Star Publications, Inc.
- Brand
- A Farrell Publication
- Editing
- Ruth Roche
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Silver Age US
- Paper Stock
- newsprint
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- was ongoing
Haunted Matador
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Iger Shop; ?
- Inks
- Iger Shop; ?
- Colors
- Iger Shop; ?
- Letters
- Iger Shop; ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Matador Pepe Gonzales kills his rival by poisoning a bull's horns.
- Reprints
-
in Midnight (Farrell, 1957 series) #2 (July 1957) [retitled and revised for Code-approval] which is reprinted - in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v2#6 (April 1968)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#2 (April 1970), #v3#6 (December 1971)
-
in Wicked Witchs' Tales [sic] (Gredown, 1978 series) #2 ([February 1979]) -
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #14 (1964 ?) -
in Un Faux Livre (Delcourt, 2017 series) #2 (octobre 2018) [Page 4]
-
The Zombi's Bride
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Roy Gifford inspects a banana plantation in Hispaniola. He encounters a master "Zombi" and his army of servants. Gifford tries to put an end to his business.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #14 (1964 ?)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v3#1 (February 1969)
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#3 (June 1970)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v7#1 (February 1973)
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 (June 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v9#2 (June 1976)
- in Thriller Tales (Gredown, 1984 ? series) ([1983])
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated by the "Voodoo Doctor". Story seems to be an outside contribution, not Iger Shop.
Mirror Torment
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Mysterious ghost reflections appear in the mirrors of mobsters. The "Mirror Men" make the gangsters hallucinate and smash their crime syndicate.
Druid's Castle
Christopher Fenn / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Frank Belknap Long
- Pencils
- Iger Shop; ?
- Inks
- Iger Shop; ?
- Colors
- Iger Shop; ?
- Letters
- Iger Shop; ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Christopher Fenn; Lady Debra Seeley; Drum (Fenn's dog); Alf Barnes
- Synopsis
- Ghostly druids haunt a manor in England. Psychic investigator Christopher Fenn uses a dematerializing machine of his own invention. With it, he turns himself, his dog Drum, and Lady Seeley into immaterial ghosts. They use their new form to better negotiate with the ghost druids. Fenn uses a branch of mistletoe to negotiate with the druids. Drum remains a ghost at the end of the story, protecting the area.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #26 (1962)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v1#11 (November 1968) which is reprinted
- in Crypt of Creatures (Gredown, 1976 series) #5 ([1980?])
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#2 (April 1970)
- in Strange Galaxy (Eerie Publications, 1971 series) #v1#10 (June 1971)
- in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #3 ([no date])
-
- Keywords
- Druids; ghosts
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested Carl Burgos ? for pencils. This story is similar to the Christopher Fenn story from Fantastic Fears #3, with notable differences. The overall story arc of checking out a case for a wealthy woman after a man named Alf is murdered by ghosts on the property is repeated.
Floating Coffin
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Iger Shop; ?
- Inks
- Iger Shop; ?
- Colors
- Iger Shop; ?
- Letters
- Iger Shop; ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Ships are caught in the treacherous Sargasso sea and attacked by a seaweed monster named "Sargasso".
- Reprints
- in Strange (Farrell, 1957 series) #3 (August 1957) [retitled] which is reprinted
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #147 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #16
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #14 (1964 ?)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #76 ([no date])
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Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested Matt Baker ? for pencils.
Though Baker has been credited for stories in the sister title "Voodoo" in 1952, this is more than improbable in autumn 1953.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Haunted Matador
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2.
The Zombi's Bride
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3.
Mirror Torment
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4.
Druid's Castle
Christopher Fenn -
5.
Floating Coffin
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Claus Simonsen
- Bill Devine
- Tillmann Courth
- Kevin Olson
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Ramon Schenk
- Peter Croome
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Keith Smith
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