The Thing
#17
(November 1954)
Charlton,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (credited as Al Fago Studios) (design)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A wizard conjures up a demon.
- Reprints
-
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1420-A - A Steve Ditko Readers Treasury - 1954 - in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (October 2009) [cover]
- in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (2014)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)
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Through the Looking Glass
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Kirkel (signed as Kirk)
- Inks
- Steve Kirkel (signed as Kirk)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Charlotte Jetter
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A Wonderland adventure of the third kind: Alice is a mean and sadistic girl who runs amok and kills its hostile and wondrous inhabitants.
- Reprints
Bad Blood!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Carl Memling
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed Ayers)
- Inks
- Ernie Bache
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Gabriel Robb murders his rich uncle in a rage. Searching for his treasures, Gabriel is attacked by the dead man's walking corpse and crushed to death in a wine press.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Bache inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.
Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to "Joe Gill ?"
Wishful Thinking!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Kirkel (signed as Kirk)
- Inks
- Steve Kirkel (signed as Kirk)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Charlotte Jetter
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Emil Barto is a vampire aboard a ship and gets stranded on an island. One by one the party of survivors falls prey to his bloodlust. Barto, too, meets his fate by the hands of another vampire.
- Reprints
Horror on the Hill
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Robb Martner visits an old captain living atop a deadly cliff over the sea. He will be staying forever, taking over the chores of being the next "Ancient Mariner".
- Reprints
Weird Legend of Trelawney
comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- John Marshand visits the English town of Trelawney. Two former land owners, the squires Tilton and Ghastney, haunt the region with their ghostly attack dogs. Marshand gets in the middle of their feud and can barely escape with his life.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Through the Looking Glass
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2.
Bad Blood!
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3.
Wishful Thinking!
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4.
Horror on the Hill
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5.
Weird Legend of Trelawney
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Edgar Loftin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Mike White
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