Nightmare
#1
(Summer 1952)
Ziff-Davis,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1952-03-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Approved Comics, Inc.
- Brand
- Ziff-Davis Comic Group
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 174.
The Blood Ship
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska
- Inks
- George Tuska
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The ship the Gloris Dune is christened but at the launch runs over a drunken sailor who curses it at the loss of his hand. Embittered, he signs aboard the whaler and burns her down. Hoping as the only survivor no one will know, he books passage aboard a mysterious whaler and learns it's the ghost ship, with dire consequences for him!
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
George Tuska not credited in issue.
The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska
- Inks
- George Tuska
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Tom hates his brother Jeff. They both get caught in a terrible snow storm and find shelter in a log cabin with no food. In desperation they hunt in the storm and Tom trips, accidentally shooting his disbelieving brother. He buries him in the snow outside the cabin only to have him appear in the cabin the following 2 mornings. Found screaming, Tom is locked up in a hospital and ends his life digging up his brother to prove to him he didn't kill him.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
George Tuska not credited in issue.
The Fatal Note!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Syd Shores
- Inks
- Syd Shores
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Walter Gregory; Eve Taylor; Morta, Keeper of the Lighthouse of Death; Lillian Darrow
- Synopsis
- Walt and Eve are shipwrecked in a storm. Walt holds onto a spar to keep afloat and Eve drowns, screaming for help, as Walt claims the spar cannot hold them both. Walt meets Morta, who tells Walt he will die in a year unless he tells someone how he let Eve drown. Walt is rescued and gradually falls in love with Eve's best friend but is haunted by images of Eve's face as she was drowning. He tells no one and a year to the date of her drowning, he flies to Paris and his flight goes down in the ocean, whereupon he jumps in to be with Eve.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #18 (1962) -
in Flint Comix & Entertainment (Ted Valley, 2009 series) #91 (October 2017)
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Indexer Notes
Art credit added by Gene Reed - 12/28/2010
The Tunnel of Horror
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two bums are scouring the beach and discover a valuable ring, which leads one to kill the other. He then tries to persuade a former fairground colleague to allow him to rejoin the partnership as he now has money. Refusing, the colleague sees that the bum has indeed got money and is setting himself up in competition, and sends the Police round to frighten him. The bum rushes into the Tunnel of Horror to 'see' his murdered victim and dies in the tunnel.
- Reprints
Vision of the Gods
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
- Inks
- Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two photographers film temples in Ceylon and suddenly see a dancing beauty. On return they find everything fine except she does not appear on their film.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #14 (1963 ?)
- in Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) (September 2010)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[The Burgess all-purpose electric sprayer]
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2.
The Blood Ship
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3.
The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead
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4.
[no title indexed]
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5.
Jardini's Jaw
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6.
The Fatal Note!
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7.
The Tunnel of Horror
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8.
Vision of the Gods
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9.
Flash! Special Sale! This Month Only!
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10.
[The Chevalier Health Supporter Belt]
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11.
[Charles Atlas]
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- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Pat Conolly
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Ramon Schenk
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