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Issue Details

Issue #V5#1
Published January 1972
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 52
Editing Carl Burgos; Ezra Jackson (art)

Cover Details

Genre horror

6 page story "The Zombie-Maker"

Synopsis "The nameless horror stepped out of the darkness and stole the souls of helpless innocent victims. A 'weirdo'!"
Genre horror
Pencils Ruben Marchionne (signed)
Inks Ruben Marchionne (signed)
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #19 (October 1954) [a redrawn version of "The Skid Row Monster"]; in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#3 [in this redrawn version]; in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#5 [in this redrawn version]

6 page story "The Bloody Creature"

Synopsis "A group went out to hunt bear and moose only to discover it was they who were hunted by the bloody creature. A 'shocker'!"
Genre horror
Pencils Mariana Cerchiara (signed)
Inks Mariana Cerchiara (signed)
Notes Same basic script as original with changes and completely new art.
Reprinted from Web of Evil (Quality, 1952 Series) #3 (1953). Original title "The Beast From Beyond."

6 page text story "The Immortal"

Synopsis "The strange and terrifying tale of a doctor who became immortal."
Genre occult
Pencils Ezra Jackson
Inks Ezra Jackson
Letters typeset

7 page story "The Assassin and the Monster!"

Synopsis "The eerir tale of a hired killer caught in the grip of a creature from beyond. Ye-ech!"
Genre horror
Pencils Torre Repiso (signed)
Inks Torre Repiso (signed)
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Web of Evil (Quality, 1952 Series) #6 (September 1953). Original title "The Spectre's Face."

7 page story "Weird Magic"

Synopsis "An uncanny and strange picto-fiction of an old time vaudevillian and his black magic as practiced on the dead. A humdinger of a weird story."
Genre occult

6 page story "Devil's Plague"

Synopsis "An unusual story of a world locked in the triangle of ignorance, superstition and a deadly plague. A 'spinesnapper'!"
Genre occult
Pencils Oscar Fraga (signed)
Inks Oscar Fraga (signed)

5 page story "Monster in the Mist"

Synopsis "The terror of a beast from the past that lived on the blood and bones of innocent victims."
Genre occult
Reprinted from Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 Series) #V1#11 (1966). Originally printed in Haunted Thrills (Ajax/Farrell, 1951 Series) #17 (1954).

5 page story "If I Should Die..."

Synopsis "The horror of a man caught in the trap of being buried alive. Ugh!"
Genre occult
Reprinted from Haunted Thrills (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #18