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Issue: Tales of Horror #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #4 of 13 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: A Minoan MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Minoan Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 09/09/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 242.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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The Curse of King Kala!

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Pages: 1
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The Curse of King Kala

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A mad scientist (who is also an explorer) had obtained a shrink serum from King Kala and uses it on his neice and her husband. After they manage to trick him into giving them the antidote, they turn the tables on him when they trick him into consuming the shrinking serum.
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In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v7 #1 published February 1975
as Gruesome Nightmare [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Death from the Sea

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: The ghost of Captain Balmoran keeps returning from the sea to kill the descendants of the family who caused him and his crew to die via a ship wreck.
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In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v7 #1 published February 1975
as The Slimy Haunt [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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The Man Who Imagined a Monster!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A radio host decides to fool the public on one of his broadcasts, by claiming a monster is prowling through the nearby area killing civilians. The problem is, his imagination actually creates the monster and makes it real.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v6 #6 published November 1974
as Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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Who Shall Inherit the Earth?

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A scientist from a small European city creates a serum that doubles the intelligence of animals. He experiments on rats by turning them into beings as intelligent as humans. With this army of super intelligent rats, the now mad scientist overthrows the local government and takes over the city. U.N officials have the population escape on ships and nuke the overrun city destroying the scientist and his army of rats. Unfortunately, the problem is that some of the rats had escaped onto the ships!
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v7 #5 published September 1974
as The Rats Are Coming [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #6 published August 2013
as Who Shall Inherit the Earth? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Everyone Was Very Lucky,--Especially 'Lil' Pepp

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): 'Lil' Pepp
Synopsis: Lil' Pepp finds out her friend swindled the kids in a raffle so she bops him on the head with her schoolbooks.
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Disclose Notes: Humor strip.

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