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Home Star Publications Spook Spook 022
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This is the first issue of STARs "Spook“-line, still subtitled "Detective Cases”.
More crime than horror indeed, but very odd stories – and a most beautiful cover.

18-December-2012 5:18 pm
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Username: gpaf
Comment: The John Giunta "Spook Comics" cover illustrating this section is not here. It's a Baily Publishing title and is in the "Small Publishers" catchall group at the bottom.
 
 

Issue: #22
Published: January 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: L. B. Cole
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Spook Detective Cases on cover only; indicia reads Spook. Available as a scan at digitalcomicmuseum.com.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page) The Headless Horror
Genre: Crime Detective-mystery Horror-suspense
Comic Story (7 pages) Headless Horror!
Synopsis: Boy sleuth Jerry and his partner Captain Spook (a ghost of a policeman), try to solve the mystery of the Headless Horseman.
Genre: Adventure
Comic Story (8 pages) The Sensitive Killer
Synopsis: A gangster with bad feet is trailed by cops who track him down after finding a pair of his special therapeutic shoes.
Genre: Crime
Characters: Johnny Burro
Text Story (2 pages) Crazy to Kill
Synopsis: The murder of a crime boss by one of his own men is solved by sheriff Ben Higgins.
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Crime
Comic Story (1 page) Double Cross to Death
Synopsis: A kid tries to warn a gangster that rival gangsters will kill him in his own apartment, but he won't listen.
Genre: Crime
Characters: Roxy
Comic Story (9 pages) Her Face of Horror
Synopsis: An old woman that runs a beauty salon fleeces her clients by burning their faces with acid and robbing them of their jewels.
Genre: Crime
Characters: Madame Rachel Edouard La Joie Irene Lady Glendening Jack Drake Mildred Nicholson Col. Nicholson Dr. Geraud Mrs. Crosse McAllister
  The data in the above section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database™ under a Creative Commons Attribution License.


Home Star Publications Spook Spook 022
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