Shocking Tales Digest #1

(October 1981)

[Blank pages] (Table of Contents)

filler / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.

[Shocking Tales Contents] (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell; Jack Kirby; Joe Simon

Inks:

Bob Powell; Jack Kirby; Joe Simon

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen; typeset

Indexer Notes

This is a collage of images and titles from the interior stories.

Strange Superstitions (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Howard Nostrand

Inks:

Howard Nostrand

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Reprints:

• from Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953)

Colorama (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Bob Powell

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Howard Nostrand

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

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 (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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Joe Simon

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Reprints:

• from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)

Line-Up! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Howard Nostrand ?

Pencils:

Howard Nostrand

Inks:

Howard Nostrand

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Synopsis:

There's been a murder in the hill country, and it's time for justice.

Reprints:

• from Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953) [with significant changes, ; modified and retitled as "Line-Up"]

Indexer Notes

Reprinted in this form in Recollections Sampler (Lorne-Harvey, 1991 series) #1.

The Hero (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Oleck

Pencils:

Marvin Stein

Inks:

Marvin Stein

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Reprints:

• from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #2 (November 1957)

The First Man on the Moon (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

science fiction

Reprints:

• from Race for the Moon (Harvey, 1958 series) #1 (March 1958)

Canceled! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Synopsis:

A banker hires a hit man, but refuses to pay when the intended victim dies an accidental death.

Reprints:

• from ? [with changes]

The Cadmus Seed! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

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! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Genre:

science fiction

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! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Synopsis:

A time traveler discovers that in 2514, the human race is extinct, and intelligent animals rule the Earth.

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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Marvin Stein

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

An unemployed proofreader finds a gateway to another dimension.

Reprints:

• from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #2 (November 1957)

The Big Hunt (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

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:

• from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #2 (November 1957)

Man in Black (Table of Contents)

The Man in Black called Fate / filler / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Characters:

Man in Black; Venus; The Weaver

Reprints:

• from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)

Brush Strokes (Table of Contents)

The Man in Black called Fate / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Bob Powell ?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Reprints:

• from Man in Black (Harvey, 1957 series) #1 (September 1957)

The Hanging Thread (Table of Contents)

The Man in Black called Fate / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

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 (Table of Contents)

The Man in Black called Fate / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

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] (Table of Contents)

The Weaver / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Genre:

adventure; historical

Characters:

The Weaver (host)

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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

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! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Kirby ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson ?

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A supercomputer gains consciousness, but he wants more.

Reprints:

• from Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 series) #2 (November 1957)

Knockout! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Certa

Inks:

Joe Certa

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Synopsis:

A fighter gains self-confidence from a mysterious potion.

Reprints:

• from Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #45 (August 1953)

The Invasion! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Synopsis:

A couple panics when the television reports flying saucers have landed.

Reprints:

• from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #21 (October 1953) [with changes]

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