(October 2019)

IDW, 2019 Series
Published in English (United States) United States
 
Price
24.99 USD; 33.99 CAD
Pages
132
On-sale Date
2019-10-09
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
IDW Publishing
Brand
Yoe Books!; IDW
ISBN
978-1-68405-549-4 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
9781684055494 52499
Editing
Steve Banes
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock
glossy pages with cardboard covers
Binding
Trade Paperback
Publishing Format
Collected Edition

Issue Notes

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Avison
Inks
Al Avison
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
various (spot illustrations)
Inks
various (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Title page and indicia. Includes presentations of other titles in this series.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 2.75 pages (report information)

Script
John Rozum
Pencils
various (spot illustrations)
Inks
various (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
For thousands of years people have believed that a person's spirit exists separately ...

Me, Ghost (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Jack Katz ?
Pencils
Jack Katz (signed)
Inks
Jack Katz (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Herb Field

Job Number
B-1628
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A guy uses his girlfriend as a human shield against a robber.
Reprints

Revenge (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ross Andru
Inks
Mike Esposito? (possible not probable)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man kills his wife by cutting her brakes so he can get her insurance. Her ghost comes back from the dead for revenge, ultimately damning her own soul.
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Specters Stalk the Bloody Tower (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Fate (host)
Synopsis
England, 1940, height of the "blitz". A german collaborator is brought to justice and hanged by the ghosts of the London Tower.
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The Haunted Ghost (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
King Ward
Inks
King Ward
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Nancy; Phil Chapman; Mike
Synopsis
A ghost from the 4th dimension is haunted by a creature from the 5th dimension and brings the beast to our world, the 3rd dimension.
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Jury of the Undead (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A cruel judge, known for his hanging sentences on innocent men, is condemned to a painful living death by a jury of his victims' ghosts.
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The Smiling Woman (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Jack Slater tries to rebuild his life after a school prank goes horribly wrong. But Kathy Albert, the victim of the prank, won't forgive him...even in death!
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Baffling Mysteries #32 (Table of Contents: 9)

Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sy Grudko
Inks
Sy Grudko ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
An oft-told tale of the supernatural took place in a small Balkan country ...
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Indexer Notes

One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Avison
Inks
Al Avison
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
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My Friend the Ghost! (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Russ Heath (signed)
Inks
Russ Heath (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Maurice Whitman
Inks
Maurice Whitman
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ken Bald
Inks
Ken Bald
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
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Out of the Unknown Came the Evil Spirits of the Dead (Table of Contents: 14)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Tex Blaisdell ?
Inks
Tex Blaisdell ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

You Are the Murderer! (Table of Contents: 15)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime; detective-mystery; horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Cover based on H. J. Ward's cover for Spicy Mystery Stories for November 1937, a pulp also published by Trojan.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Frank Giusto
Inks
Frank Giusto
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I warned you...there are no shortcuts in life...now you must pay for your folly!
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

[Man and a woman in a mine being attacked by a ghost miner] (Table of Contents: 17)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Matt Baker
Inks
Matt Baker ?
Colors
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Seance of Terror! (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Edd Ashe ?
Inks
Edd Ashe ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Doctor Death (host)
Synopsis
Attending a seance, Warren Travers' soul is pulled out of his body and wanders the realms of the beyond. Meanwhile an otherworldly creatures inhabits his body and tries to build a machine that will call all the lost souls into this world.
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Smoke Spirit (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Kenneth Landau (signed)
Inks
Kenneth Landau
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Ken Brown; Hugh Scarlett; Sonia Scarlett; Honey Scarlett
Synopsis
Reporter Ken is told by a female ghost--who appears in a cloud of pipe smoke--to visit the Scarlett Acres plantation. Owners Hugh and Sonia plan to murder Ken, but the ghost, Hugh's sister Honey, warns him. She says they murdered her and buried her in the tobacco fields. That's why she appears in smoke. To help Honey avenge herself, Ken tricks Hugh and Sonia into burning a barnful of tobacco. This gives Honey the power to destroy her murderers. Honey can now rest in peace.
Reprints

If a Body Kill a Body (Table of Contents: 20)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Two Scottish highlanders from warring families have a taboo love affair. When they are respectively killed by the patriarchs of their rival families, they come back as ghosts to get revenge.
Reprints

The Death Wish (Table of Contents: 21)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Pilot Bruce Gordon crashes in the jungle, is rescued by natives, learns of hidden treasure, steals it by committing a murder. Back home he is haunted by vengeful spirits and meets his fate.
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The Ghost of Abbey Playhouse (Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Forgione (signed)
Inks
Bob Forgione (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Eric Abbey inherits a decrepit London theatre. When he opens Abbey Playhouse again to the public, the ghosts from the past won't allow it and bring the place down.
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The Haunting White Shadow (Table of Contents: 23)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob McCarty
Inks
Bob McCarty
Colors
?
Letters
Charlotte Jetter

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
The two murderous thugs Jocko and Squash encounter Lady Justice in person and embark on a psychedelic journey into madness and poetic retaliation.
Reprints

Never Call a Ghost (Table of Contents: 24)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Jesse Merlan
Pencils
John Forte (signed)
Inks
John Forte (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Jon D'Agostino ?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Bart Winslow brings back the ghost of his deceased ancestor (a vicious pirate) so he can get his buried treasure. The plan backfires.
Reprints

A Night in Black Knoll (Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)
Inks
Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Characters
Claude; Letha Michaux; Amos Chaney; Susanna Chaney
Synopsis
A census taker encounters a witch's ghost from the Black Knoll cemetery who gathers souls of the dead that wander into the area.
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Phantoms of the Forgotten (Table of Contents: 26)

Fate / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Louis Zansky
Inks
Louis Zansky
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
The crook George Crandall resurrects himself a posse of undead wild west bad men. They commit robberies until a wild west sheriff is brought back to life as well.
Reprints

The Ghost's Curse! (Table of Contents: 27)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles Nicholas
Inks
Charles Nicholas ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Jarod Parks is secretary to successful classic dancer Mona Travis. Since Parks has gambling debts, he murders Mona and forges her last will. The dancer’s ghost, however, pesters Parks with haunting threats of his punishment after death. When Parks finally dies, he rots away in his grave fully conscious.
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Outro (Table of Contents: 28)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Steve "Mr. Karswell" Banes
Pencils
? (spot illustration); ? (photo)
Inks
? (spot illustration); ? (photo)
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 29) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)