Terror Tales
#v4#3
(April 1972)
Eerie Publications,
1969 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Brand
- ?
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Fernando Fernández (painting)
- Inks
- Fernando Fernández (painting)
- Colors
- Fernando Fernández (painting)
- Letters
- ?
Satan's Man
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alberto Macagno (signed)
- Inks
- Alberto Macagno (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Satan shows up and has optometrist Harry Lenz make a pair of spectacles. Harry tries them on and finds that he can see through walls and read minds. Killing an old miser (who is really Satan), Harry escapes and goes to Europe, changing his name to Herman Greid, extorts and blackmails his way to riches. Prince Natas and Princess Sedah (read them backwards) con Harry/Herman into financing a revolution. All goes wrong and Harry loses all his money and escapes only to have his glasses stolen by Satan and finds out now he is blind.
- Reprints
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from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #4 (May 1953) [reworked] - in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 (May 1974)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#4 (October 1976)
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Indexer Notes
Original title: "Satan's Spectacles."
Invitation from a Vampire
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A gigolo who kills his elderly brides attempts to add another notch to his belt, only to become dinner for a elderly vampiress.
- Reprints
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #13 (April 1953) [reworked]
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 (May 1974)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#2 (July 1977)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#4 (January 1980)
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Indexer Notes
Original title: "Life's Blood."
The Creatures
text story / 3 pages
- Script
- R. A. Lafferty
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Future, August 1942, original title: "The Ultimate Creature."
The Weird Old Man
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Out of the Shadows (Pines, 1952 series) #13 (May 1954) [reworked]
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#1 (January 1974)
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in Orgy of Destruction (Gredown, 1983 ? series) ([1983?])
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Indexer Notes
Original title: "The Recluse."
The Zombie Army
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v4#5 (October 1970) which is reprinted
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #15 (October 1952) [reworked]
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Dead Man's Train
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v4#5 (October 1970) which is reprinted
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #16 (December 1952) [reworked]
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The Gateway to Yesterday
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Midnight (Farrell, 1957 series) #2 (July 1957) which is reprinted
- from Strange Fantasy (Farrell, 1952 series) #5 (April 1953) [retitled and revised for Code-approval]
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Exit the Lone Ghost!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Strange Journey (Farrell, 1957 series) #3 (February 1958) which is reprinted
- from Voodoo (Farrell, 1952 series) #1 (May 1952) [retitled and revised for Code-approval] which is reprinted
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from Ellery Queen (Superior, 1949 series) #4 (November 1949)
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Satan's Man
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2.
Invitation from a Vampire
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3.
The Creatures
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4.
The Weird Old Man
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5.
The Zombie Army
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6.
Dead Man's Train
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7.
The Gateway to Yesterday
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8.
Exit the Lone Ghost!
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