XOW Logo
Issue: Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Ghosts #[nn]
Publication Date: October 2019
 
Disclose Detail
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagIDW
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: IDW Publishing
On Sale Date: 10/09/2019
Volume:
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9781684055494
UPC/EAN: 978168405549452499
Price: $33.99 CAD
$24.99 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 30 (18 stories, 3 covers)
Editor(s): Steve Banes
Disclose Notes:  
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy pages with cardboard covers
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From1
Some/all of another Issue reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagSpooky #90 published February 1966
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
Disclose
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Al Avison
Al Avison
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
various (spot illustrations)
various (spot illustrations)
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Title page and indicia. Includes presentations of other titles in this series.
Disclose
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Rozum
various (spot illustrations)
various (spot illustrations)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
For thousands of years people have believed that a person's spirit exists separately ...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2.75
Disclose
Me, Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Katz ?
Jack Katz (signed)
Jack Katz (signed)
?
Herb Field
Subject Matter
horror
A guy uses his girlfriend as a human shield against a robber.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
B-1628
Disclose
Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito? (possible not probable)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
A man kills his wife by cutting her brakes so he can get her insurance. Her ghost comes back from the dead for revenge, ultimately damning her own soul.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
Specters Stalk the Bloody Tower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror
Fate (host)
England, 1940, height of the "blitz". A german collaborator is brought to justice and hanged by the ghosts of the London Tower.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
The Haunted Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
King Ward
King Ward
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Nancy; Phil Chapman; Mike
A ghost from the 4th dimension is haunted by a creature from the 5th dimension and brings the beast to our world, the 3rd dimension.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Disclose
Jury of the Undead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
A cruel judge, known for his hanging sentences on innocent men, is condemned to a painful living death by a jury of his victims' ghosts.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
The Smiling Woman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Jack Slater tries to rebuild his life after a school prank goes horribly wrong. But Kathy Albert, the victim of the prank, won't forgive him...even in death!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
Disclose
Baffling Mysteries #32

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sy Grudko
Sy Grudko ?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Baffling Mysteries
An oft-told tale of the supernatural took place in a small Balkan country ...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Disclose
[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Avison
Al Avison
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
My Friend the Ghost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Heath (signed)
Russ Heath (signed)
Stan Goldberg
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Disclose
[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Maurice Whitman
Maurice Whitman
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Ken Bald
Ken Bald
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Out of the Unknown Came the Evil Spirits of the Dead

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tex Blaisdell ?
Tex Blaisdell ?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
You Are the Murderer!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
crime, horror, mystery
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Cover based on H. J. Ward's cover for Spicy Mystery Stories for November 1937, a pulp also published by Trojan.
Disclose
[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Giusto
Frank Giusto
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
I warned you...there are no shortcuts in life...now you must pay for your folly!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Man and a woman in a mine being attacked by a ghost miner

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Matt Baker
Matt Baker ?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Seance of Terror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Edd Ashe ?
Edd Ashe ?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Doctor Death (host)
Attending a seance, Warren Travers' soul is pulled out of his body and wanders the realms of the beyond. Meanwhile an otherworldly creatures inhabits his body and tries to build a machine that will call all the lost souls into this world.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
9
Disclose
Smoke Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Kenneth Landau (signed)
Kenneth Landau
?
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Ken Brown; Hugh Scarlett; Sonia Scarlett; Honey Scarlett
Reporter Ken is told by a female ghost--who appears in a cloud of pipe smoke--to visit the Scarlett Acres plantation. Owners Hugh and Sonia plan to murder Ken, but the ghost, Hugh's sister Honey, warns him. She says they murdered her and buried her in the tobacco fields. That's why she appears in smoke. To help Honey avenge herself, Ken tricks Hugh and Sonia into burning a barnful of tobacco. This gives Honey the power to destroy her murderers. Honey can now rest in peace.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Disclose
If a Body Kill a Body

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Two Scottish highlanders from warring families have a taboo love affair. When they are respectively killed by the patriarchs of their rival families, they come back as ghosts to get revenge.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
The Death Wish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Mike Sekowsky
?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Pilot Bruce Gordon crashes in the jungle, is rescued by natives, learns of hidden treasure, steals it by committing a murder. Back home he is haunted by vengeful spirits and meets his fate.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
The Ghost of Abbey Playhouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bob Forgione (signed)
Bob Forgione (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Eric Abbey inherits a decrepit London theatre. When he opens Abbey Playhouse again to the public, the ghosts from the past won't allow it and bring the place down.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
The Haunting White Shadow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bob McCarty
Bob McCarty
?
Charlotte Jetter
Subject Matter
horror
The two murderous thugs Jocko and Squash encounter Lady Justice in person and embark on a psychedelic journey into madness and poetic retaliation.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10
Disclose
Never Call a Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jesse Merlan
John Forte (signed)
John Forte (signed)
?
Jon D'Agostino ?
Subject Matter
horror
Bart Winslow brings back the ghost of his deceased ancestor (a vicious pirate) so he can get his buried treasure. The plan backfires.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Disclose
A Night in Black Knoll

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)
Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
Claude; Letha Michaux; Amos Chaney; Susanna Chaney
A census taker encounters a witch's ghost from the Black Knoll cemetery who gathers souls of the dead that wander into the area.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
9
Disclose
Phantoms of the Forgotten

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Louis Zansky
Louis Zansky
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror
Fate
The crook George Crandall resurrects himself a posse of undead wild west bad men. They commit robberies until a wild west sheriff is brought back to life as well.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Disclose
The Ghost's Curse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Charles Nicholas
Charles Nicholas ?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror
Jarod Parks is secretary to successful classic dancer Mona Travis. Since Parks has gambling debts, he murders Mona and forges her last will. The dancer’s ghost, however, pesters Parks with haunting threats of his punishment after death. When Parks finally dies, he rots away in his grave fully conscious.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Disclose
Outro

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Steve "Mr. Karswell" Banes
? (spot illustration); ? (photo)
? (spot illustration); ? (photo)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Disclose
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
From the terror team that curdled your blood wit Mummies and Swamp Monsters ...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.