Witches Tales
#v6#6
(November 1974)
Eerie Publications,
1969 Series
- Volume
- 6
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Eerie Publications Inc.
- Brand
- ?
- Barcode
- ?
Issue Notes
This issue includes 3 pages of paid advertisements.
[Witches' Tales Volume 6 Number 6]
table of contents / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Title page with border art, listing of contents and indicia information.
The Thing That Screamed
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A carnival owner doesn't want her daughter seeing a new employee he believes is a cad. Apparently neither does his pet ape Bobo.
- Reprints
-
from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v4#4 (28) (January-February 1954) [reworked] - in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v10#2 (June 1977)
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Indexer Notes
Redrawn story. Original title: "Screaming Doll".
Satan's Demons
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man suspects his aunt of killing his mother and of being a witch.
- Reprints
- from Tomb of Terror (Harvey, 1952 series) #3 (August 1952) [reworked]
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#2 (July 1977)
- in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v2#2 (May 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Redrawn story. Original title: "The Cry of Satan".
The Coffin
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A cruel but beautiful woman uses her charms (and the black arts) to gain power over men and eventually over a country. But she finds out that vengeance can extend beyond death.
- Reprints
- from Tomb of Terror (Harvey, 1952 series) #3 (August 1952) [reworked]
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Indexer Notes
Redrawn story. Original title: "Cavern of the Doomed".
The Man From Hell!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Satan replaces the newly born son of a simple countryfolk couple with an evil imp of his making. By showing this creature parental love, Satan will be able to ascend to earth and rule. But things go not according to plan.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #9 (February 1954) [reworked]
-
in Insane (Gredown, 1981 ? series) ([1981])
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Indexer Notes
Redrawn story. Original title: "The Son of Satan".
The Beast from Below
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An atomic explosion releases a horrific monster from a crack in the ocean's floor.
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#3 (June 1971) which is reprinted
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #20 (November 1954) [reworked]
-
Devil Ghouls
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A college student dreams that an earthquake destroys his home town releasing murderous demons from the pits of hell. He rushes home and is relieved to find that his parents are OK. Or are they?
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v4#1 (February 1970) which is reprinted
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #8 (January 1954) [reworked]
-
The Bloody Corpse
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- After a wealthy man dies, his greedy children laugh at his dying request to build him an expensive tomb. But the laughter doesn't last long.
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#5 (August 1972) which is reprinted
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #15 (January 1953) [reworked]
-
The Sorcerer
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Synopsis
- While spending the night in a cemetery as part of a fraternity initiation, a college boy encounters the ghost of a sorcerer from the 21st century who wants to prevent the boy from committing murder.
- Reprints
- from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#3 (June 1971) which is reprinted
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #25 (July 1954) [reworked]
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
[Witches' Tales Volume 6 Number 6]
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2.
The Thing That Screamed
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3.
Satan's Demons
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4.
The Coffin
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5.
The Man From Hell!
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6.
The Beast from Below
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7.
Devil Ghouls
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8.
The Bloody Corpse
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9.
The Sorcerer
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