(November 1952)
Fawcett,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Will Lieberson (Executive Editor); Al Jetter (Art Editor); Mercedes Shull
This Magazine is Haunted
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Full-page advertisement for This Magazine is Haunted. Includes an illustration of a (scared) man reading said magazine.
Revolt of the Fingers
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Antonini Bellt, a brilliant young musician, has no control over his left hand he calls "Dividi". When his mentor Provak starts bullying him, Bellt's hand goes berserk.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #62 (1965 ?) -
in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#5 (September 1973) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#4 (November 1976)
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in Doomsday Annual (K. G. Murray, 1974 series) #1 ([November 1975]) - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #20 (2014)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #17 (June 2015)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #24 - Haunted Horror: Nightmare of Doom and Much More! (Volume 6) (March 2018)
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Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested George Evans ? for art credits.
It is Bob McCarty, a Evans-lookalike who also worked at Fawcett in these years.
The Black Candle of Life
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jeff Capper; Marjorie Capper; Sima
- Synopsis
- Jeff and Marjorie Capper are traveling through Tibet when they have to seek shelter in a cave from a rainstorm. By lighting a black candle the tourists revive the zombie-like "evil ones".
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #62 (1965 ?)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#4 (August 1970) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#4 (June 1972)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#2 (March 1974)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#3 (July 1978)
- in Grip of Death (Gredown, 1983 ? series) ([1983])
- in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #18 (January 1975)
- in Ghostly Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #10 ([January 1980]) [Illustrations of The Mummy (host) removed from first and last panels of story. “Beware! Terror Tales” banner removed from every page of story.]
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #20 (2014)
- in Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
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- Keywords
- Tibet
Little Lady
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Landlord Mr. Mulcahey comes to collect the overdue rent from the O'Givern family. He meets a family of banshees.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #62 (1965 ?)
-
The Crawling Horror
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Titus Grimm; Wilbur Hatch
- Synopsis
- Titus Grimm and Wilbur Hatch are scientists who invented a living mass of protoplasm and an electronic brain. Grimm is willing to hook the brain to the blob and create "a creature far superior to man".
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #62 (1965 ?)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#4 (August 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#3 (May 1973)
- in Pit of Evil (Gredown, 1975 ? series) #10 ([1978])
- in Orgy of Destruction (Gredown, 1983 ? series) ([1983?])
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #20 (2014)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #24 (October 2016)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
This Magazine is Haunted
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2.
Revolt of the Fingers
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3.
The Black Candle of Life
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4.
Little Lady
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5.
The Crawling Horror
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6.
Incredible - Pulse-Pounding Tales of Strange Suspense!
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7.
Beware! Terror Tales
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Frode Dreier
- Alex Frazer-Harrison
- Dan Kocher
- James Ludwig
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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