The Thing
#4
(August 1952)
Charlton,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Outstanding Comics, Inc.
- Brand
-
An Outstanding Comics Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (editor)
The Hounds of Dartmoor
Things You Should Know / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano (signed as
Giordano) - Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed as Giordano)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Occasional victims have been found upon the moor ....
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Account of phantom hounds of Dartmoor, allegedly the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
- Reprints
I Was A Zombie
comic story / 8 pages
- 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
Indexer Notes
cover story
The Promise of Ying Ko
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Walter Gibson (sourced)
- Pencils
- Al Tyler (signed as Tyler)
- Inks
- Al Tyler (signed as Tyler)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Back before World War II, Steve Payne was the third mate of an old tramp steamer ...
- 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.
- Reprints
The Unseen Thing
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A student of Indian Shawnee Theology wrestles in a university lab with an invisible demon from the beyond.
- Reprints
The Petrified Ghost
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Terry Morse; Roger Burt; Rufus Helwig; Professor Lyle Yates
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Ghostly Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #10 ([January 1980]) [“The Thing” banner removed from every page of story.] -
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)
-
Partners In Death
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Belfi (signed as
JOHN BELFI) - Inks
- John Belfi (signed as 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
Twins of Doom
comic story / 4 pages
- 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.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Thing
-
1.
The Hounds of Dartmoor
Things You Should Know -
2.
I Was A Zombie
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3.
The Promise of Ying Ko
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4.
The Unseen Thing
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5.
The Petrified Ghost
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6.
Partners In Death
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7.
Twins of Doom
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8.
["Weird flickering lights called 'corpse candles'..."]
Things You Should Know
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Mark Muller
- Steven Rowe
- Richard Smith
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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