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Home Small Publishers Baily Publishing Company (1943-46) Spook Comics 001 (Baily Pub.) -JVJ
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Another book from the JVJ Collection. Scans and edits by narfstar.
Issue: #1
Published: [1945], Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: One-shot
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.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page) Meet Mister Lucifer
Featuring: Mister Lucifer
Genre: Horror-suspense
Characters: Mister Lucifer
Comic Story (8 pages) Up Pops the Devil!
Featuring: Mister Lucifer
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.
Genre: Horror-suspense
Characters: Unnamed Policeman (death) Mulligan (policeman) Mister Lucifer (villain) Lucifer's Evil Minions (villains) Two Thugs [Clipper Other Unnamed] (villains) Perkins
Comic Story (5 pages) Exiled to Earth
Featuring: Gregory the Ghost
Synopsis: Gregory is sent down to earth to haunt a house, but gets mistaken as a comedian.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Gregory The Ghost
Comic Story (3 pages) Haunted House
Featuring: Cheap Skate
Synopsis: A man stays in a house to avoid spending money on a hotel.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Cheap Skate
Comic Story (6 pages) The More-or-Less Living Corpse
Featuring: Dr. Paul Barer
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 Barer.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Dr. Paul Barer Living Corpse Nurse
Comic Story (8 pages) The Obi Makes Jumbee
Synopsis: Caresse dances a real voodoo dance and a man drops dead and raises up again.
Genre: Horror-suspense
Characters: Caresse Mr. Lynch Guido Batso Brown Gaunt
  The data in the above section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database™ under a Creative Commons Attribution License.


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