The Thing
#5
(October-November 1952)
Charlton,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Capitol Stories Inc.
- Brand
-
An Outstanding Comics Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (editor)
The Thing
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Morales (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Morales
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
The Thing Presents
table of contents / 1 page
- Pencils
- Lou Morales (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Morales
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Contents page
Curse of Karnak
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Forgione
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Professor Ambrose carelessly revives the mummy of King Mentu and sets free a plague of Egyptian gods running amok in the excavation camp.
- Reprints
Harmony of Horror
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Forgione
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Jim Shervin kills Bruno Augustin, the rival for his love of the beautiful Cleo. The pianist's ghost comes back from the dead and haunts his murderer by moving objects around via acoustical vibrations.
- Reprints
The Frustrated Ghost
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Captain Isaac Humboldt dies in a steamship crash on the Mississippi. His ghostly apparition appears many miles away to his mother and his brother.
- Reprints
Murderers' Row
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Strange things happen in and around Professor Caglio's wax exhibition of murderers through history. Can Elsa and boyfriend Terry escape when trapped in the storage room?
- Reprints
-
in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #17 (July 1974) -
in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #12 (August 2014) - in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #16 - Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead! and Much More! (Volume 4) (August 2016)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
cover story
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Tavern of Terror
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Young man spends the night in an inn haunted by an old female vampire. The fiend appears and warns him to stay, but the man won't listen and has to pay for his stubbornness with his life.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Things You Should Know / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Morales (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Morales
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Banshee, strange family ghost...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Three panels informing about the habits of banshees.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
1/2 page inside back cover with ad for pimple cream
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Thing
-
1.
The Thing Presents
-
2.
Curse of Karnak
-
3.
Harmony of Horror
-
4.
The Frustrated Ghost
-
5.
Murderers' Row
-
6.
The Tavern of Terror
-
7.
["The Banshee, strange family ghost..."]
Things You Should Know -
8.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- James Ludwig
- Richard Smith
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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