Spook #30
(October 1954)

Star Publications, 1953 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Quarterly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Star Publications Inc.
Brand
A Star Comic
Editing
L. B. Cole ? (editor)

Nightmare!! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jay Disbrow
Inks
?
Colors
L. B. Cole ?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Cover depicts splash from last story "The Insider".

Swamp Spirit (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Jay Disbrow
Pencils
Jay Disbrow
Inks
Jay Disbrow
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
In the "remote bayous of southern Louisiana" they tamper with a serum for human longevity, accidentally releasing an evil spirit. When the spirit goes for the girl, it gets destroyed.
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The Vengeful Phantom (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jay Disbrow
Pencils
Jay Disbrow
Inks
Jay Disbrow
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Many years after his murder, the ghost of the victim returns to kill the wrongdoer.
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The Mummy (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Iger Shop
Inks
Iger Shop
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
The mummy of king Ramzu comes alive and wants only one thing: to be joined in death with his beloved Oaana. He abducts the mummy of his beloved queen, flees into the Egyptian jungle (?), fights off lions and a pesty police officer. In the end he finds his peace, witnessed by a girl reporter. "Can't print the story... who would believe me?".
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The Ghost Who Cried (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Family moves into house haunted by spirit of little girl. The father sets her free.
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Picture a Nightmare (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
George Peltz
Inks
George Peltz
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A night guard at the museum is dragged into a painting presenting a door into a dimension of evil. He can fight his way back to the real world and manages to destroy the picture.
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Maniac (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Synopsis
Hit-and-run-driver is hunted down by the police.
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The Insider (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Jay Disbrow ?
Pencils
Jay Disbrow
Inks
Jay Disbrow
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Guy Maudrid; un-named evil spirit (villain, death); Htard (villain, the spirit's servant, death)
Synopsis
Guy Maudrid, a writer of supernatural stories is summoned before a "grotesque ogre personifying the forces of evil". The writer is asked to hand over his manuscript because therein lies the secret of destroying all evil. Maudrid applies his knowledge and evil is destroyed.
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Indexer Notes

Splash page is same as cover art. ? added to writer credit per Roy Thomas in Alter Ego #117 (June 2013).
Jay Disbrow wrote and drew this story and it's essentially a remake of a story he did one month earlier called "Dwellers in Darkness" for Beware #11.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Nightmare!!
  2. 1. Swamp Spirit
  3. 2. The Vengeful Phantom
  4. 3. The Mummy
  5. 4. The Ghost Who Cried
  6. 5. Picture a Nightmare
  7. 6. Maniac
  8. 7. The Insider
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Tillmann Courth
  • Peter Croome
  • Craig Delich
  • Kenneth English
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Jim Walls
  • Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
  • Mike White