Issue: #8
Published: August-September 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Sol Cohen
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1953, page 50, registration number B392961.
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| Table Of Contents (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Contains original art promoting each of the four stories. |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Monster of Zollmort Castle |
| Synopsis: |
Novelist Peter Fletcher visits Zollmort castle in Central Europe. By opening a sealed door in the dungeons, he releases the Zollmort monster; a huge green monster with an oversized head. He and his wife have to fight for their lives and are saved when the castle's disfigured caretaker, Quadro, destroys himself and the monster with dynamite. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Peter Fletcher Alice Fletcher Quadro (caretaker) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Song of the Undead! |
| Synopsis: |
John and Dorothy Blaik travel through Mexico looking for folk songs. The beautiful Xatl introduces them to the "Song of the Undead". Any one who plays the song will be doomed and fall prey to vampires. Dorothy plays the song and is attacked by Xatl who turns out to be a vampire. When John sees his dead wife, he plays the song. Dorothy is revived as an undead vampire and kills her husband. Afterwards a little boy finds the sheet music for the song and vows to play it when he learns music. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
John Blaik Dorothy Blaik Xatl |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Alchemist |
| Synopsis: |
A chemist poisons himself while searching for the elixir of life. |
| Credits: |
Colours: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Phantom Python |
| Synopsis: |
British Colonial East Africa: The commissioner's daughter Tani is seriously ill and seeks help from native witch doctor Loganzi. She dies during the ceremony and Loganzi is hanged. But he and Tani haunt the land in the shape of a giant python snake. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Tani Loganzi |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Deformed of Zoar |
| Synopsis: |
A crime happens in the valley of Zoar. A family robs and murders a traveler and gets cursed for generations by being born with deformities. |
| Credits: |
Colours: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Curse of the Bulaga! |
| Synopsis: |
Explorer Jon Norland travels to Antarctica to hunt the fabled Bulaga beast, a tusked walrus like monster. He finds it caught in a block of ice. After thawing it, the Bulaga comes alive. The monster kills Jon's companion, the beautiful Althea, and then chases Norland around the world. Eventually the monster takes the form of Althea and kills Jon in a tropical locale. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Jon Norland Althea |
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