(October 1981)
Harvey,
1981 Series
- Price
- 0.95 USD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Picture Magazines Inc.
- Barcode
- 0716585271801
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ernie Colón; Bob Powell ?; Jack Kirby ?
- Inks
- Ernie Colón; Bob Powell ?; Jack Kirby ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Colón art per The Comic Reader # 194, September 1981. Some images may be taken from interior stories.
Shocking Tales Contents
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Powell; Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Inks
- Bob Powell; Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Rosen; ?
Indexer Notes
This is a collage of images and titles from the interior stories.
Strange Superstitions
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Many harmless birds and animals were once regarded with horror and loathing by superstitious people throughout the world!
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Animals listed as bad omens are owl and magpie. A good omen is a cuckoo. The howling of dogs was associated with the approach of death. It was thought that a mouse held the soul of a person when asleep. A black cat was depicted as a witch's companion.
Colorama
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You are driving on the street with the million neon lights!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- You are hypersensitive to color, and the doctor may have a cure, but you will have to kill him to get it.
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953) [with changes]
-
Indexer Notes
Reprinted from a version modified from original to meet Comics Code requirements. The text box that appears in the last panel of page five in the version in Black Cat Mystic #62 apparently fell off the original art and ended up covering the lower left corner of the first panel on page three in this printing. (So the story ends with the original ending after all.)
Logan's Next Life!
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Was this an actual case of reincarnation?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tom Conway; Mary Conway; Rex Logan
- Synopsis
- Tom thinks his friend Rex has been reincarnated as a dog.
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
Line-Up!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There were no spotlights, no witnesses, not even a detective around!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- There's been a murder in the hill country, and it's time for justice.
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953) [Reprinted with significant changes; modified and retitled from "Lynch Mob" to "Line-Up!"]
-
Indexer Notes
Reprinted in this form in Recollections Sampler (Lorne-Harvey, 1991 series) #1.
The Hero
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Only a very, very special man could go into space -- and in a million years you or I could never match the hero
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man's short stature makes him the greatest of all astronauts.
- Reprints
in First Man on the Moon
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The M-4 was the standard circle-type artificial satellite build to launch landing rockets to the moon...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An astronaut discovers that he may not be the only living creature on the moon.
- Reprints
- from Race for the Moon (Harvey, 1958 series) #1 (March 1958)
-
Cancelled!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A deal's a deal! There's no way out of this debt...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A banker hires a hit man, but refuses to pay when the intended victim dies an accidental death.
The Cadmus Seed!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Manpower from plantpower? The answer could rock the world!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Horace Googer
- Synopsis
- An eccentric scientist discovers a way to grow men from seeds.
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
The Fourth Dimension is a Many Splattered Thing!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eddie could never be confused in this world...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Eddie Michaels; Max Hall
- Synopsis
- When mysterious robberies hit a hat store, the owner follows the thieves into the Fourth Dimension!
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
The Last Enemy!
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The time-traveler found strange friends in the world of the future...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Hammond Drake; Rat leader; The General (a bulldog)
- Synopsis
- Drake travels to 2514 AD. He finds dead tigers in a field. A rat tells him that all humans were killed in an atomic war and that animals inherited the earth. Drake is knocked out and back at their lair they demand the secret of making atom bombs. Suddenly the lair is attacked knocking Drake out. He wakes up in a bed with a dog, fox and bear at his side. The General enters the room and tells him that only rats want to continue fighting, everyone else wants peace. Drake gives him the secret of atomic bombs. Drake travels back to the present hoping that dogs will be better than rats.
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
Indexer Notes
In many ways, this story is a prototype for Jack Kirby's later series, Kamandi.
Donnegan's Daffy Chair
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nothing like it had ever been built before...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Timothy Donnegan; Sam; Frank
- Synopsis
- A hapless janitor takes a wild ride in a mysterious chair.
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
Hole in the Wall
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was warmth and movement... something alive in that...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An unemployed proofreader finds a gateway to another dimension.
- Reprints
The Big Hunt
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was the strangest game a man ever set out to bag!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A bored hunter travels to Dimension 5 to hunt the strange creatures there, but the boys at the club don't believe him.
- Reprints
Man in Black
Man in Black / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Greetings! I am the Man in Black!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Man in Black; Venus; The Weaver
- Synopsis
- Fate helps an old man split a diamond perfectly.
- Reprints
- from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
Brush Strokes
Man in Black / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Some people accept their fate... some battle it... and others try to shape it to their own ends only to seal it with their downfall!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Man in Black (host)
- Synopsis
- A painter wishes to paint the greatest painting ever, but when Fate grants his wish, things don't go the way he planned.
- Reprints
- from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
Second Chance
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's hostile! I'm almost sure of it!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Interplanetary war is averted when a typo is detected on the translation of an alien message.
- Reprints
- from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
The Hanging Thread
Man in Black / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There are some people who simply refuse to believe in fate!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Man in Black; Venus; The Weaver
- Synopsis
- When the Weaver decrees a certain man must die in a shipwreck, his wife tries to defy Fate.
- Reprints
- from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
The Fly in the Ointment
Man in Black / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did you know that a lowly, common house fly once thwarted the combined efforts of a mighty king and his wicked torturer?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Man in Black (host)
- Synopsis
- In an ancient Asian city, a corrupt king tries to kill a young man and claim the man's sister for his harem. But Fate has other plans.
- Reprints
- from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
[The Gladiator]
The Weaver / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- The Weaver (narrator); Gracchus; Ledra; Marcus; Crassius Livitcus
- Synopsis
- In ancient Rome, a henpecked gladiator thinks he will get away with murder. But the thread of his life is shorter than that.
- Reprints
- from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)
-
The Fireballs!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What were they? Where did they come from? What were they doing on Earth?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Fireballs that seem to move with intelligence appear in a rural area.
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #2 (November 1957)
-
I Want to Be a Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am something more than a calculating machine! I can think... I can feel emotion!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A supercomputer gains consciousness, but he wants more.
- Reprints
- from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #2 (November 1957)
-
Knockout!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Keep your guard up, brace yourself, and look out for this...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A fighter gains self-confidence from a mysterious potion.
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953)
-
The Invasion
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the beginning of the invasion
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A couple panics when the television reports flying saucers have landed.
- Reprints
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #21 (October 1953) [with changes]
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Shocking Tales Contents
-
3.
Strange Superstitions
-
4.
Colorama
-
5.
Logan's Next Life!
-
6.
Line-Up!
-
7.
The Hero
-
8.
First Man on the Moon
-
9.
Cancelled!
-
10.
The Cadmus Seed!
-
11.
The Fourth Dimension is a Many Splattered Thing!
-
12.
The Last Enemy!
-
13.
Donnegan's Daffy Chair
-
14.
Hole in the Wall
-
15.
The Big Hunt
-
16.
Man in Black
Man in Black -
17.
Brush Strokes
Man in Black -
18.
Second Chance
-
19.
The Hanging Thread
Man in Black -
20.
The Fly in the Ointment
Man in Black -
21.
[The Gladiator]
The Weaver -
22.
The Fireballs!
-
23.
I Want to Be a Man!
-
24.
Knockout!
-
25.
The Invasion
-
26.
[no title indexed]
-
27.
["...Inside your Shocking Tales Digest Magazine no. 1"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Bill Devine
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Mike Nielsen
- Paul Robinson
- Joey Sayer
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.