(September 1952)
Fawcett,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Mercedes Shull (editor); Will Lieberson (executive editor); Al Jetter (art editor)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #20 ([April 1975])
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The Dry Doom
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Prospector Dusty Otis kills a man in the desert for a bag of gold. The victim's ghost takes revenge by letting Otis die of thirst. Every drop of water turns to sand, is salted, scalding hot or vanishes into thin air.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Voice in the Brain
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Aliens pick up mathematics professor Tom Andrews to help them solve a problem on their home planet.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
contains 1 small spot illustration
The Haunting White Shadow
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The two murderous thugs Jocko and Squash encounter Lady Justice in person and embark on a psychedelic journey into madness and poetic retaliation.
- Reprints
-
in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #2 ([circa 1961]) - in Doomsday Annual (K. G. Murray, 1974 series) #1 ([November 1975])
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in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #23 (2014) - in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Ghosts (IDW, 2019 series) (October 2019)
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Death's Round Trip
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Dr. Albert Carlton drugs himself to death and takes a tourist trip into the realm of death. His colleague will revive him after some minutes, so that Carlton can return and live to tell. There are complications, of course.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #62 (1965 ?)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #23 (2014)
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Indexer Notes
Unknown artist from Fawcett's early 1950s. Tillmann Courth spotted him in some books and will keep looking. "Jokerface" keeps drawing minor characters with cartoony elongated faces.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Haunting White Shadow
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1.
The Dry Doom
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2.
Voice in the Brain
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3.
The Haunting White Shadow
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4.
Death's Round Trip
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Kenneth English
- Jim Walls
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