Witchcraft #4

(September-October 1952)

[Contents Page] (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

Inks

Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

Inside Front Cover.

The Man Who Bribed Death (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

A. C. Hollingsworth (signed)

Inks

A. C. Hollingsworth (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Newspaper correspondent Robert Avery has a heart condition and only one more day to live. He strikes a bargain with death himself: Avery kills people before their time and gets to stay alive longer. He travels to dangerous spots like war-torn Korea and Red China where life is cheap and death sudden. His luck runs out as he tries to be smuggled out of a disease-stricken city in a coffin.

Reprints

• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v4#1 (February 1970) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#2 (April 1971)
• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#2 (March 1973)
• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v11#3 (September 1978)

Indexer Notes

First-person narrative

The Terrible Face (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Meskin

Inks

Mort Meskin ?; George Roussos ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Plastic surgeon Emil Toller is jealous of the handsome Jack Parks. Parks is engaged to lovely Nanette whom Toller plans to marry. When Parks is hurt in a car crash, Toller disfigures his face, driving the man to suicide. The dead man’s misshapen face haunts the surgeon who ends up inheriting his terrible features.

Claws of the Cat (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Inks

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Grace and Walter Brock murder his rich aunt Annie for her money. They kill her pet cat, too. After burying the old woman, they find the cat’s body gone. Months later, strange things start to happen: Walter is scratched by an invisible animal, and Grace transforms into a murderous feline.

Reprints

• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#1 (February 1970) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#2 (March 1971)
• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#6 (October 1972)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#5 (October 1974)
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#2 (May 1978)
• in Hideous Haunts (Gredown, 1982 ? series) ([1982] ?)

Diary of the Monster (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Meskin ?

Inks

Mort Meskin ?; George Roussos ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

John Stark is a firebug. He causes a lot of fires until he is caught red-handed. Stark claims his innocence on behalf of being possessed by a monster inside of him. When Stark commits suicide in his cell, the fire monster indeed breaks loose.

Indexer Notes

First-person narrative