Beware! Terror Tales #7

(May 1953)

The Man who Defeated Death! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

Bill Woolfolk

Pencils:

Maurice Gutwirth

Inks:

Maurice Gutwirth

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

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 Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #3 ([June 1972])
• in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #3 ([no date]) [1st splash page used as cover.]

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Writer credits by Martin O'Hearn.

Dripping Terror (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Anthony Cataldo ?

Inks:

Anthony Cataldo ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Charlotte Jetter

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! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

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.

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Tempest in a Teapot (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

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 (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob McCarty

Inks:

Bob McCarty

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ed Hamilton

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:

• in Super Giant Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #23 ([1976])

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.