Strange Fantasy
#13
(August-September 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
- Editing
- Ruth Roche (editor)
Terror in the Attic
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- George Moore shows his family home to his wife Linda and Linda discovers his twin brother Ben chained in the attic. Ben attacks Linda after she releases him and George has to kill his brother.
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #19 (1962) -
in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v2#2 (April 1967) - in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#2 (March 1970)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v4#4 (July 1971)
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Desperate Peril!
Kolah [Rulah] / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Kolah (Rulah; name relettered)
- Reprints
- from Rulah (Fox, 1948 series) #27 (June 1949)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #1 (1964), #55 (1968 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #194 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
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Indexer Notes
Original title "The Runaway Balloon". Rulah's name relettered as "Kolah" and her costume is redrawn. The art is reminiscent of Matt Baker's.
The Corpse Came To Dinner
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man and his wife are haunted by the ghost of the mans original wife, who has come back from the dead angry that her husband had remarried after she died.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #19 (1962)
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#7 (September 1969) [retitled]
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #28 (June 2017)
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Bye-Bye Alibi!
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Synopsis
- Brent Foster investigates the death of Hiram Keighley.
- Reprints
- in Gunsmoke Trail (Farrell, 1957 series) #2 (August 1957) [retitled] which is reprinted
- in Gunsmoke Trail (L. Miller & Son, 1957 series) #2 ([circa 1957])
- in The Gunfighters (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #12 (1963)
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The Murder Pool
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Fat unlikable James Gorse builds a swimming pool and fills it with a special red acid that eats away flesh. He tricks people he hates into swimming in his pool and laughs maniacally when they are reduced to skeletons. When he tries to get his wife to swim, she shoots him and murders him causing his corpse to fall into the pool.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #20 (1962)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v2#8 (July 1968), #v4#2 (April 1970), #v6#7 (December 1972)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #21 (February 2016)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #25 - Haunted Horror: Cry from the Coffin! And Much More! (Volume 7) (January 2019)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Terror in the Attic Murder Pool!
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1.
Terror in the Attic
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2.
Desperate Peril!
Kolah [Rulah] -
3.
Four More Exiting Magazines Join the Ajax Family
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4.
The Corpse Came To Dinner
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5.
Bye-Bye Alibi!
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6.
The Murder Pool
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Mike White
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