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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Will Lieberson (Executive Editor); B. J. Heyman (Editor); Al Jetter (Art Editor)

Cover Details - "The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp!"

Characters Doctor Death (host)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

11 page story "The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp!"

Characters Doctor Death (host)
Genre horror
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Reprinted in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 Series) #17; in Four Color Fear (Fantagraphics, 2010 series) #[nn]

10 page story "The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins!"

Characters Doctor Death (host)
Genre horror
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Reprinted in Nightveil's Cauldron of Horror (AC, 1989 series) #1; in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #3

2 page text story "Horror at Midnight"

Genre horror
Script John Martin
Pencils ? (header illustration)
Inks ? (header illustration)

9 page story "The Last Man"

Characters Doctor Death (host); Eddie (death); Mike (death); Joe (death); Pete (death)
Synopsis A small carnival pitches it's tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins.
Genre Horror
Script Earl Hammer, Jr.
Reprinted in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #16; in FemForce in the House of Horror (AC, 1989 series) #1 (1989) [in black and white]