The Thing #4

(August 1952)

The Hounds of Dartmoor (Table of Contents: 1)

Things You Should Know / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Giordano (signed)

Inks:

Dick Giordano

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Account of phantom hounds of Dartmoor, allegedly the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

I Was A Zombie (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Fago (Signed)

Inks:

Al Fago

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Engineer Alden Blake is called to Haiti to build a dam. When he ecounters zombie slave laborers, Blake threatens to go public. He is turned into a zombie himself, but manages to take revenge.

Reprints:

• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #22 ([August 1975])
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #18 - The Return of the Zombies (September 2016)

Indexer Notes

cover story

The Promise of Ying Ko (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Tyler (signed)

Inks:

Al Tyler

Colors:

?

Letters:

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Genre:

adventure; horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Skipper Steve Payne makes a living cruising the waters off the Chinese coast. After saving the life of a man called Ying Ko, Payne himself gets rescued years later by the now turned "pirate king" Ying Ko.

The Unseen Thing (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

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Letters:

typeset

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A student of Indian Shawnee Theology wrestles in a university lab with an invisible demon from the beyond.

The Petrified Ghost (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

?

Colors:

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Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A sculptor is crushed to death by one of his statues. But his blood (and ghost) are absorbed by the sandstone. The statue comes alive and pursues his criminal business partners.

Partners In Death (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Belfi (signed)

Inks:

John Belfi

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Ray Bruce withhelds heart pills from his business partner Howard Croft, thus killing him slowly. But Croft's ghost returns to haunt his former associate.

Reprints:

• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #22 ([August 1975])

Twins of Doom (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

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Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Identical twins Peter and Paul Leverett are going to meet again after a ten-year separation. A rival steps in and kills Paul, sending Peter into (by twin-magic) a coma and summoning the local sheriff. Investigation of Peter's coma leads to the detection of Paul's murder.

["Weird flickering lights called 'corpse candles'..."] (Table of Contents: 8)

Things You Should Know / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Giordano ?

Inks:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Account of floating lights phenomena predicting deaths.

Indexer Notes

1/2 page inside back cover