| Additional Information |
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| Publication | January 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils: Harry Harrison? | Inks: Harry Harrison? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Publisher advertisement | Crime Mysteries (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | House ad for Crime Mysteries. Cover of current issue shown in the ad. |
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| Comic Story | The Life of Riley (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Riley, a bank robber, gets away with $60 thousand after a heist, he needs to hide out. He stays with The Duchess who he expects to help him get away. |
| Credits | Pencils: Myron Fass (signed) | Inks: Myron Fass (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Riley; Mame; The Duchess; Lulu; Bombo. |
| Notes | H: The Nameless One (I) |
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| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for a "Health-supporter belt". Basically a girdle. Ad by Ronnie Sales Inc.
Located between pages 6 and 7 of first story. |
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| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Charles Atlas body building book. |
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| Comic Story | Guest of the Ghouls (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Javit steals interesting tombstones from cemeteries. An old caretaker forbids him to enter a mausoleum but he does. Coffins open and ghouls emerge. They try to wrestle Javitt into a coffin but he escapes. Outside the mausoleum he again meets the caretaker who this time identifies himself as Death. Javitt dies for stealing from Death's realm. |
| Credits | Pencils: Sid Check (signed) | Inks: Sid Check (signed) | Letters: Herb Field? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Javitt Rodman; Death; Ghouls |
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| Comic Story | Heads of the Dead (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A witch doctor forbids Harwood to hunt a sacred tiger, but he ignores him and kills the animal. That night the witch doctor transforms Harwood into an antelope, a leopard, and a wild pig, and, with each transformation, he is killed by his friends. At dawn, Harwood is restored to his true self, but the scared tiger returns to life. It chases Harwood into am elephant pit where he is impaled upon sharpened stakes. |
| Credits | Pencils: Vince Napoli? | Inks: Vince Napoli? | Letters: Herb Field? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Wallace Harwood (big game hunter); Indian Witch Doctor; Wallace's Fellow Hunters |
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| Advertisement | Angel Chimes (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for musical chimes by Illinois Merchandise Mart. |
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| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement promoting a sale by the Ideal Co. |
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| Text Story | The Devil Shares a Body (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | After being wounded in World War I a man battles with his evil alter ego. |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Roger Menot/Jacques Wazemmes (dual personality) |
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| Comic Story | Black Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Medieval Paris is hit with the plague. Michel and Denise wish to escape the city but their way is blocked by city guards. A noblewoman has died and her body is to be shipped out of the city to Argentueil. Michel pries the casket open, discards the corpse, and persuades Denise to take its place. That night he boards the barge headed for Argentueil intending to free Denise from the casket but learns that the noblewoman's father had his daughter buried. Michel commits suicide by throwing himself in the Seine. |
| Credits | Pencils: Henry Kiefer | Inks: Henry Kiefer |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Black Death (host); Michel and Denise (young lovers) |
| Notes | Cover story. |
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| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for training to get jobs in radio and television by the National Radio Institute. |
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| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Lionel Trains model trains.
On back cover. |
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