Strange Fantasy
#12
(June-July 1954)
Farrell,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Farrell Comics Inc.
- Brand
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Ajax Comics; A Farrell Publication
- Editing
- Ruth Roche (editor)
The Undying Fiend
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An expedition in England unearths a viking ship. In it slumbers a vampire viking called Garth. Garth rises from the dead, steals the woman and retires in the Devonshire countryside.
- Reprints
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in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #4 ([circa 1961]) - in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #23 (1962)
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in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#7 (March 1969) - in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v4#5 (October 1970)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#3 (May 1972)
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#2 (March 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#2 (July 1979)
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in Screaming Terror (Gredown, 1983 ? series) (1983)
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Scales of Death
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A poisonous salamander is the source of doom for a sheik, a grand vizier and their mistress in old Arabia. Hundreds of years later the artefact comes back to life and goes after an old fool and his show girl hussy.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #22 (1962)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#7 (March 1969)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v4#5 (October 1970)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#3 (April 1972)
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Fangs of Fear
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two strangers are stalking each other on the waterfront. They fight for world domination in human disguise. Because one of them is the king of the rats and the other one the king of the cats.
- Reprints
- in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #3 ([circa 1961])
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #23 (1962)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v1#11 (April 1966)
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#7 (September 1969)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#2 (April 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v9#3 (September 1976), #v12#1 (February 1979)
- in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v1#5 (November 1979)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v5#1 (January 1981)
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Jungle Magic
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Synopsis
- Young Dr. Hill wants to help vanquish a plague spreading in a jungle village. He confronts the native witch doctor and manages to outsmart him. Hill is now accepted and welcomed.
Terror Town
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Over the city it spread, a slimy mass of bone blue tissue,
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Professor Larry Wilkins
- Synopsis
- Professor Wilkins experiments on brains and keeps them alive after death. When he injects the brain of an octopus with his growth serum, the thing expands enormously and starts running amuck in the city. Wilkins can kill it by feeding him the poisoned corpse of a colleague.
- Reprints
- in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #3 ([circa 1961])
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #23 (1962)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v3#2 (May 1969)
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#5 (September 1970)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#4 (June 1972)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Undying Fiend
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1.
The Undying Fiend
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2.
Scales of Death
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3.
Fangs of Fear
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4.
Jungle Magic
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5.
Terror Town
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Tillmann Courth
- Stephen Mitchell
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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