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Issue: Mysterious Adventures #21 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1954
 
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Publisher: FlagStory Comics
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Story Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 14 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Hy Fleishman ?
Hy Fleishman ?
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horror
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Dean Ross Piano Studios

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Advertisement for the Patented Automatic Chord Selector
The Choker

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Ross Andru ?
Ross Andru ?
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Subject Matter
horror
A necklace has been in the husband's family for generations and takes revenge on the woman who killed him by strangling her and putting the blame on her boyfriend who hangs for her murder.
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FlagTales from the Tomb v6 #2 published March 1974
as The Hanged [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
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First-person narrative by a choker, a diamond necklace.
Stops "Bed Wetting"

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Advertisement for Gary Pharmacal Co. Dry-Tabs
Price Smash

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Advertisement for Dept. M dresses
The Coward

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Bill Savage ?
Bill Savage ?
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Subject Matter
horror
Butcher father breaks up son's engagement and son disembowels him in revenge in a very EC-esque tale. "Who's gutless now? Eh, eh, eh."
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FlagTales of Voodoo v3 #6 published November 1970
as The Gutless One [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
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Horror of the Guerrilla

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Ellen Lynn
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Subject Matter
horror
Tim Chapman steals penicillin to sell on the French black market. But when he double crosses the local guerilla, he has to pay with his life.
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Beauty and the Beast

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Hy Fleishman ?
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horror
Mother Ghoul's Nursery Tale
Woman avoids the executioner by promising to bring the king the fortune of the Beast. She tries for months to get the beast to kiss her and turn into a prince, but he avoids her. She tries to kill him & fails. When she does kiss him, he turns into a handsome prince and she turns into a hideous beast.
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Stops "Nail Biting" Habit Instantly

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Advertisement for Elmorene Co. for anti-nail biting formula
400 Movie & TV Star Pictures

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Blood Thirsty

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Dick Beck ?
Dick Beck ?
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Subject Matter
horror
Girl visits her grandmother and becomes convinced she is a vampire. Granny is incensed and insulted because she is really a ghoul and kills her granddaughter in fit of pique.
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FlagWeird v4 #6 published December 1970
as The Angry Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
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Prizes Given

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Advertisement for The FUNman Fun Club
Beads Contain Water from the Miraculous Fountain at Lourdes

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Advertisement for Inspiration Guild, Inc. prayer beads (which, in an ultra-violent horror comic, is pretty amusing)
Do You Need Money?

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