Shocking Tales Digest #1

(October 1981)

[Blank pages] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.

[Shocking Tales Contents] (Table of Contents: 2)

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: 3)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Howard Nostrand

Inks

Howard Nostrand; Al Avison ?

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Rosen

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 (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 (Table of Contents: 4)

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: 5)

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: 6)

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: 7)

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: 8)

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: 9)

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: 10)

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: 11)

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: 12)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Kirby

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Jack Kirby

Colors

?

Letters

Howard Ferguson

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 (Table of Contents: 13)

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: 14)

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: 15)

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: 16)

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: 17)

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: 18)

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: 19)

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: 20)

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: 21)

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: 22)

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: 23)

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: 24)

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: 25)

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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