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Issue: Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #21
Publication Date: March 1968
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Issues: #21 of 95 Issues (128 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/07/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10053-803. On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S., later Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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The Dream Demon

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAvontuur Classics #18107 published January 1969
as De droom-demon [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Incident at Devil's Lake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAvontuur Classics #18107 published January 1969
as Incident in het Duivels Meer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as Das Rätsel am Teufelssee [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Dream Demon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAvontuur Classics #18107 published January 1969
as De droom-demon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #86 published ?
as Der Fetisch aus dem Zauberreich [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as Der Traumgeist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Unknown inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Joe Orlando.
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Death Haunts the Opera

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ghostly Images

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #17 published May 1974
as The Ghostly Images [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as Die geisterhaften Bilder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #103 published ?
as Jagd aus dem Jenseits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art not André LeBlanc.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Art Gallery
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pictures and short paragraphs on the Aardvark, the Platypus, the Armadillo and the Gnu.
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Bull

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Picture Dictionary
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four, illustrated definitions of the word 'bull'.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Chuckle Time
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four, one panel gags.
"Actually, He's bald! Those are his eyebrows!" 2 girls looking at a hipster.
"Boy! He sure must have a tall dog!" 2 kids commenting on a Buckingham Palace guard house.
"Harold, must we stay in this lane?" A female concerned about her companion following to close to a truck pulling a canon.
"What native ritual dance? This the frug!" 2 native women dancing.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Quick Takes
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four three-panel gags.
A golfer makes a hole-in-one... with his club.
A man has to hold the TV antenna for the picture to focus for his wife to watch a western.
A fisherman catches a boot and throws it away before realizing a fish was inside it.
A hummingbird falls in love with a dart.
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The Scavengers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #23 [Gold Key] published May 1975
as The Scavengers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #97 published ?
as Treibgut der Hölle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as Aasgeier der See [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Newman script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2020.
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The Screaming Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #14 [unnamed variant] published October 1973
as The Screaming Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #26 published October 1975
as The Screaming Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #100 published ?
as Der Schreckensfund von Yucatan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as Der schreiende Schädel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Flying Carpet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mini-Comics
Synopsis: A man uses his flying carpet as shade in the desert.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Mad Scientist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mini-Comics
Synopsis: A mad scientist changes into different monsters, but when he turns into a dog, he is picked up by a dog catcher.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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The Opossum

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Storm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff #8 published ?
as Der Sturm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Boris Karloff Pin-Up

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Reprint of the front cover without photograph, logo or caption.

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