Spook Comics
#1
([1945])
Baily Publishing Company,
1946 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1945 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Baily Publishing Co.
- Editing
- Bernard Baily
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age US
- Paper Stock
- newsprint
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
Art credit info from Tim Barnes, November 2007. This book is generally listed as coming out in 1946. There is no date on the book. Based on contents and similar Baily titles, it more likely came out in early 1945.
Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who lists some of the comic book’s artists, Howie Post and Munson Paddock, as only having done work for Baily Publications in 1945, indicating further that 1945 is the probable year of this comic book's publishing.
Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who lists some of the comic book’s artists, Howie Post and Munson Paddock, as only having done work for Baily Publications in 1945, indicating further that 1945 is the probable year of this comic book's publishing.
Meet Mister Lucifer
Mr. Lucifer / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Giunta (signed)
- Inks
- John Giunta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Up Pops the Devil!
Mister Lucifer / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- unnamed policeman (death); Mulligan (policeman); Mister Lucifer (villain); Lucifer's evil minions (villains); two thugs [Clipper; other unnamed] (villains)
- Synopsis
- Two crooks rob a store, shoot a policeman and hide out in a cemetery to hide their stolen funds, when suddenly Mr. Lucifer appears, being freed by the crook's actions. Lucifer then frees his evil minions and together all go forth to commit dastardly deeds. By a quirk of fate, Lucifer and his followers trap themselves in a grave of cement.
- Reprints
in [Exiled to Earth]
Gregory the Ghost / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Gregory the Ghost
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
art id by Jim Vadeboncoeur
[The More-or-Less Living Corpse]
Dr. Paul Barer / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dr. Paul Barer; living corpse; nurse
- Synopsis
- A medical journal writer visits a mental hospital. He interviews a patient, who says he was turned into a "living corpse" by Dr. Paul Barer. Paul Barer used his victim as a stage performer and also ordered him to abduct celebrities who were then put into a trance and displayed in a wax museum. The "journalist" is revealed to be Dr. Paul Bearer.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Churchill; Frank Sinatra; Hitler; Lou Costello; Mae West; Mussolini; Napoleon; Stalin
Indexer Notes
Art credit from Jim Vadeboncoeur. This story was inspired by the film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
The Obi Makes Jumbee
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Original art credit to "Robert Baldwin," however Paddock is identified on the note card attached to the scanned copy online (http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28363) and if you look at the signed ("MP") cover of SLAPSTICK COMICS vol. 1 no. 1 (as well as other credited Paddock work), this clearly seems to be work of Munson Paddock.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
Meet Mister Lucifer
Mr. Lucifer -
1.
Up Pops the Devil!
Mister Lucifer -
2.
[Exiled to Earth]
Gregory the Ghost -
3.
[Haunted House]
Cheap Skate -
4.
[The More-or-Less Living Corpse]
Dr. Paul Barer -
5.
The Obi Makes Jumbee
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Katy Hayhurst
- Bob Hughes
- James Ludwig
- Daniel Martinez
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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