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Issue: Phantom Witch Doctor #1

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1952

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Avon

Brand: An Avon Publication

Indicia Publisher: Avon Periodicals Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Jos. Meyers (President); Sol Cohen (Editor and General Manager)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: one-shot

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1 Content Item
- The Thing in the Mirror [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (8 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Notes: front cover

Table of Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

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Subject Matter

Synopsis: Brief synopses of the four stories in the issue with four black and white illustrations.

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Pages: 1

Notes: inside front cover

The Phantom Witch Doctor

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): George Harcourt (British East Africa commissioner); Peter Harcourt (George's son); M'Basi (witch doctor); Naba (M'Basi's daughter); Bulo (African native)

Synopsis: George murders M'Basi and Naba to acquire their ivory cache. Twenty-five years later, M'Basi and Naba return as phantoms to crush his son under tons of ivory.

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Pages: 7

The Thing in the Mirror

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): James Crawford (wealthy, evil man); George Dana (scientist); Barbara Johnson (George's lover)

Synopsis: James murders George to gain Barbara, but is tranformed into a little green monster who becomes a carnival exhibition.

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In Content Item: Flag

Psycho #1 published January 1971
as The Thing In The Mirror [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Worried to Death

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 1

Notes: one small black and white illustration, possibly by Kinstler

Death Came Dancing

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): George (ballet dancer); Cara (George's partner); Gloria (wealthy socialite); Mr. Montescu (ballet troupe manager)

Synopsis: George dumps Cara and marries Gloria. Cara commits suicide. Years later, Cara appears at a posh masked ball and goads George into leaping to his death from a nearby cliff.

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Pages: 6

Fear in the Storm

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 1

Notes: one small color illustration

Out of the Deep

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Rigger Hale; Charlie Blake; Skeleton Slave Men; Skeleton Slave Master

Synopsis: Rigger and Charlie, two evil seamen, are marooned on a desert isle haunted by skeleton slave men. The skeleton slave master kills the two seamen in order to make them members of his slave army of death, but the isle is blown to smithereens.

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Pages: 6