(May 1953)
Fawcett,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Will Lieberson (executive editor); V.A. Provisiero (editor); Al Jetter (art director)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #4 ([August 1972]), #5 ([October 1972])
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in 
The Man who Defeated Death!
comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- First there was the dripping sound, like the steady slow patter of rain on the roof!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Mummy (Horror-Host)
- Synopsis
- Chess master Roger Capar dies of heart failure and meets Death in the afterworld, who enjoys playing chess with him. When the doctors bring Capar back to life, Death continues visiting him to play for information about imminent deaths.
- Reprints
-
in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #3 ([no date]) [1st splash page used as cover.] - in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #3 ([June 1972])
- in Ghostly Tales (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #8 ([May 1979] ?)
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Writer credits by Martin O'Hearn.
Dripping Terror
comic story / 5 pages
- 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.
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”.
Last Express!
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Mummy (Horror-Host)
- Synopsis
- Train conductor Fred Ormesbee quits his job because he's made an offer he can't refuse. Riding the train of the dead to Hades.
- Reprints
- in Ghostly Tales (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #8 ([May 1979] ?)
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Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Tempest in a Teapot
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- John Martin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Ephraim Scroon, a recluse on a hill, uses black magic to create thunderstorms and drive away the townspeople who want to lynch him.
The Walking Cadaver
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Hiram Gehr has built a machine to transmigrate souls of old men into the bodies of deceased young men. They pay him for this service to feel young again. When Gehr gets greedy, his customers protest and things get out of hand.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Man who Defeated Death!
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2.
Dripping Terror
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3.
Last Express!
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4.
Tempest in a Teapot
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5.
The Walking Cadaver
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Stephen Mitchell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
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