Doomsday #4

([August 1972])

The Dead Lover Returns! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Letters:

?

Editing:

Will Lieberson (original executive editor); B.J. Heyman (original editor); Al Jetter (original art editor)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Ted Femur dies in a boating accident, but pleads with the "high court of the dead" to return to the world of the living to look for the love of his life. He finds the girl who was meant for him. She doesn't see him as a rotting corpse and is willing to even marry him. But there's a catch...

Reprints:

• from Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #4 (May 1952)

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

The Flaming Witness (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Maurice Gutwirth

Inks:

Maurice Gutwirth ?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Will Lieberson (original executive editor); V.A. Provisiero (original editor); Al Jetter (original art director)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Karl Malden kills his business partner, Steve Gorm, by pushing him into a steel furnace. Gorm's fiery ghost returns to haunt the murderer.

Reprints:

• from Strange Stories from Another World (Fawcett, 1952 series) #5 (February 1953)

Mardu's Masterpiece (Table of Contents: 3)

The Thing / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Forgione (signed)

Inks:

Bob Forgione

Letters:

?

Editing:

Alfred V. Fago (original editor)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints:

• from The Thing (Charlton, 1952 series) #9 (July 1953)

The Man Who Lost his Body (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Letters:

?

Editing:

Will Lieberson (original executive editor); B.J. Heyman (original editor); Al Jetter (original art editor)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Baseball player Rick Demoine encounters the ghosts of former baseball heroes and steals their special abilities from them. Incorporating more and more ghostly traits, Rick Demoine himself turns into a spectral being.

Reprints:

• from Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #4 (May 1952)

The Juju Wishing Doll (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Will Lieberson (original executive editor); V.A. Provisiero (original editor)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Dr. Death

Synopsis:

A pair of lovers on Haiti come into possession of a voodoo doll. Their careless handling of the powerful artefact will be their doom.

Reprints:

• from Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #10 (June 1953)

Indexer Notes

The story is introduced by the (unnamed) Dr. Death, the horror-host from This Magazine is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series).

Dripping Terror (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Anthony Cataldo ?

Inks:

Anthony Cataldo ?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Will Lieberson (original executive editor); V.A. Provisiero (original editor); Al Jetter (original art director)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

The Mummy (Horror-Host)

Synopsis:

Captain Enoch Claughton kills the native girl Mauna for a bag of pearls. He is haunted by her ghostly apparition for decades and finally claimed to join her in death.

Reprints:

• from Beware! Terror Tales (Fawcett, 1952 series) #7 (May 1953)

Indexer Notes

Anthony Cataldo is rumored to have worked for Fawcett’s "Whiz Comics" in the early 50s (drawing the “Golden Arrow” feature). Also a bottle on the table in the splash wears the label “AC”.

Family Mixup (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters:

Charlotte Jetter

Editing:

Al Fago [as Designed by Al Fago Studios] (original editor)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Reprints:

• from The Thing (Charlton, 1952 series) #15 (July-August 1954)