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Issue: Horrific #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #4 of 13 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagComic Media
Brand: Comic Media
Indicia Publisher: Harwell Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Last Ride!

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Death; Hugh Lanson; Johnnie Rivers; Vickie; Maggie
Synopsis: Death narrates the fate of race-car driver Hugh Lanson. Hugh's face was deformed in a burning car crash. Hugh confronts his rival, Johnnie Rivers. Vickie tells Johnnie to let the confrontation go. Later at a bar, Hugh is approached by a fortune teller named Maggie. He hires her, but she says she sees death for him. Maggie helps Hugh possess Johnnie's body through a magical ritual. He does so, but demons begin to follow him. After the switch, instead of paying her a promised $10,000, Hugh kills Maggie and takes Johnnie's identity. In a race, Hugh finds himself racing in the land of the dead.
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Ring of Death

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Max Richter; Hans; Princess Narina; Ghengis Khan; Kasir
Synopsis: During WWII, Nazi submariners Max and Hans buy an antique jar in Algiers. Max dreams about Princess Narnia, whose betrothed Kasir betrayed her to Genghis Khan in exchange for a ruby he made into a ring. Kasir was cursed for the rest of his life and now Narnia warns Max to give up the ring as well. The submarine sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Before they die, Max and Hans discover the ring was hidden in the jar.
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Disclose Notes: Genghis Khan is spelled "Ghengis" in this story.
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How to Embalm a Corpse

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Terror #13 published September 1954
as How to Enbalm a Corpse [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Feature(s): Notes on the History of Horror
First Line: Blood-money nowadays is usually a term applied...
Synopsis: History of the term "blood-money."
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The Coffin

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jud Wayne; Captain Ebenezer Marlin; Andrew; Chris Marlin; Bill; Sergeant
Synopsis: Jud coerces his great-uncle Andrew Marlin--who has a heart attack and dies--into handing over a manuscript indicating their ancestor obtained a fortune in gold during the War of 1812 and hid it in the family house in Salem. While Jud is searching for the gold, his cousin Chris arrives and Jud murders him as well. While burying the corpse, Jud becomes trapped. The police arrive as Jud is dying. They see tracks of a man with a peg-leg (like Captain Marlin had) going into the sea.
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Hating Corpse

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Charlie Kennedy; Nathan Boyd; Thyra; Doc
Synopsis: Nathan loans Charlie money that Charlie can't repay, but offers to forgive the debt if Charlie divorces his wife Thyra and urges her to marry Nathan. Charlie prepares to fight Nathan but is shot to death. Nathan arranges the scene to look like suicide, then leaves to establish an alibi. However, Charlie's hate keeps him alive until Nathan returns to his office: Charlie writes a letter to his wife, kills Nathan, then collapses. The police are puzzled because Charlie died hours before Nathan, yet still appears to have shot him.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Terror #13 published September 1954
as Double Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v4 #7 published December 1972
as The Corpse That Lives [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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