Spook #23
(March 1953)

Star Publications, 1953 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Bi-Monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Star Publications, Inc.
Brand
A Star Comic
Editing
L. B. Cole

Issue Notes

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
L. B. Cole
Inks
L. B. Cole
Colors
L. B. Cole
Letters
?
Genre
detective-mystery; horror-suspense
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A Weird Picture of Murder (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
George Peltz (signed)
Inks
George Peltz
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
An eccentric painter paints a beautiful woman and kills her husband so he can marry her. But the husband's vengeful ghost comes out of one of his paintings and kills him.
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Indexer Notes

Cover story.

You Can't Kill a Dead Man (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A sheriff gets one over on a prospector who murdered his partner.
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Gorillas, Ghosts and Gangsters (Table of Contents: 3)

Sergeant Spook / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Mickey Spillane
Pencils
John Jordan
Inks
John Jordan
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
adventure
Synopsis
Boy sleuth Jerry and his partner Captain Spook (a ghost of a policeman), team up with an escaped gorilla to defeat some gangsters.
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The Bloody Horror (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime
Synopsis
Kansas State Penitentiary riot.
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Indexer Notes

Appears to be from an Atlas "True Crime" title.

His Conscience Drove Him Mad! (Table of Contents: 5)

You Be the Detective Thriller / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
crime; detective-mystery
Synopsis
The reader is to solve the crime. Killer revealed in the last panel (which is upside down)
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Indexer Notes

Originally untitled.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. A Weird Picture of Murder
  3. 2. You Can't Kill a Dead Man
  4. 3. Gorillas, Ghosts and Gangsters
    Sergeant Spook
  5. 4. The Bloody Horror
  6. 5. His Conscience Drove Him Mad!
    You Be the Detective Thriller
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Richard Smith
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
  • Mike White
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