Nightmare #1

(Summer 1952)

[The Burgess all-purpose electric sprayer] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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The Blood Ship (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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:

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #19 (1962)

Indexer Notes

George Tuska not credited in issue.

The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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:

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #19 (1962)

Indexer Notes

George Tuska not credited in issue.

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Jardini's Jaw (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

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Letters:

typeset

The Fatal Note (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ben Oda

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Walt and Eve are sailing and just as Eve is assured of Walt's love for her their boat is wrecked in a storm. Walt holds onto a spar to keep afloat and Eve drowns, screaming for help. Walt blames himself. After a time he thinks himself safe as he meets Morta, keeper of the lighthouse, who claims to know that he let Eve drown. Signing a note, Walt is sent back to the land of the living and on discharge from hospital gradually falls in love with Eve's best friend. But he is haunted by images of Eve's face as she was drowning. Leaving for Paris his flight goes down in the ocean in which he jumps to be with Eve.

Reprints:

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #18 (1962)

Indexer Notes

Art credit added by Gene Reed - 12/28/2010

The Tunnel of Horror (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

?

Colors:

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Letters:

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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:

• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #21 (1962)

Vision of the Gods (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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)

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[The Chevalier Health Supporter Belt] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

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[Charles Atlas] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

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