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Issue: Spook Comics #1
Publication Date: January 1945
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagBaily Publishing Company
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Baily Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 1945
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bernard Baily
Disclose Notes: Art credit info from Tim Barnes, November 2007. This book is generally listed as coming out in 1946. There is no date on the book. Based on contents and similar Baily titles, it more likely came out in early 1945.

Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who lists some of the comic book’s artists, Howie Post and Munson Paddock, as only having done work for Baily Publications in 1945, indicating further that 1945 is the probable year of this comic book's publishing.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Meet Mister Lucifer

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Giunta (signed)
Inker(s): John Giunta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Mr. Lucifer
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Up Pops the Devil!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Mister Lucifer
Character(s): unnamed policeman (death); Mulligan (policeman); Mister Lucifer (villain); Lucifer's evil minions (villains); two thugs [Clipper; other unnamed] (villains)
Synopsis: Two crooks rob a store, shoot a policeman and hide out in a cemetery to hide their stolen funds, when suddenly Mr. Lucifer appears, being freed by the crook's actions. Lucifer then frees his evil minions and together all go forth to commit dastardly deeds. By a quirk of fate, Lucifer and his followers trap themselves in a grave of cement.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEerie #1 published January 1958
as Up Pops the Devil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Comics That Ate My Brain! #[nn] published January 1991
as Up Pops the Devil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Exiled to Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howie Post
Inker(s): Howie Post
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gregory the Ghost
Character(s): Gregory the Ghost
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In Content Item: FlagEerie #1 published January 1958
as Exiled to Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Haunted House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Cheap Skate
Character(s): Cheap Skate
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In Content Item: FlagEerie #1 published January 1958
as Haunted House [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The More-or-Less Living Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Madden
Inker(s): Bill Madden
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dr. Paul Barer
Character(s): Dr. Paul Barer
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In Content Item: FlagEerie #1 published January 1958
as The More-or-Less Living Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Obi Makes Jumbee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Munson Paddock
Inker(s): Munson Paddock
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEerie #1 published January 1958
as The Obi Makes Jumbee [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Looking at the signed ("MP") cover of SLAPSTICK COMICS vol. 1 no. 1 (as well as other credited Paddock work), this clearly seems to be work of Munson Paddock.

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