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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1972
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Victor Gorelick
Notes Montage cover - scenes from the interior stories.

Cover Details

Notes Montage cover - scenes from the interior stories.

6 page story "Behold the Beast"

Characters Tommy; un-named blind girl
Synopsis Tommy, a freakish boy with four arms, is kept chained up in his parents' attic. When he escapes, an angry mob pursues him into the swamp, where he meets and falls in love with a blind girl who isn't afraid of him. When she falls into quicksand, Tommy sacrifices his own life to save hers.
Genre horror; occult
Script Frank Doyle
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page story "The Boy Who Cried, 'Vampire.'"

Characters Uncle Bruce; Stanley; Sabrina; Aunt Hilda
Synopsis Sabrina tells another terrifying tale: at a party, a boy named Stanley meets his uncle Bruce, who grows fangs, hypnotizes him and leaves him with two marks on his neck. Stanley accuses Bruce of being a vampire, but scientific tests prove that the wound was caused by a carving fork. Everyone, including Stanley, thinks he must have blacked out and accidentally stabbed himself with the fork. But when they're alone, Bruce admits that he stuck the fork in Stanley's neck, so that after he actually sinks his fangs in, no one will ever believe Stanley's story.
Genre horror; occult
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page story "Assignment in Fear"

Characters Sandy; Billy; Miss Softly
Synopsis A teacher uses a special bit of Satanic homework to give a student his comeuppance for making fun of a boy who stutters.
Genre horror; occult
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page text article "A Real Hot Talent"

Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Archie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1979 series) #2

1 page Sorcery story "Quick Justice"

Synopsis An art thief gets an appropriate punishment for trying to steal a painting of a hanging.
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Letters Bill Yoshida
Reprinted in Archie's Super Hero Special (Archie, 1978 series) #1

5 page story "Curiosity Kills"

Characters Uncle Henry; Jason; Luke
Synopsis A wealthy old man dies. To Jason, the nephew he hated, he leaves twelve million dollars; to Luke, the nephew he loved, he leaves only a box that has never been opened. Jason becomes obsessed with the belief that the box must contain something better than the fortune he inherited.
Genre horror; occult
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Letters Bill Yoshida