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Issue: Weird Terror #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #4 of 13 Issues
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Publisher: FlagComic Media
Brand: Comic Media
Indicia Publisher: Allen Hardy Associates
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 14 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Genres: horror
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[untitled]

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First Line: Reducing specialist says: Lose weigh where it shows most
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover ad to send for an electric spot reducer from Spot Reducer Co. of Newark, New Jersey.
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Escape

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Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: Thirteen convicts escape from a prison colony in a boat without any food. They get decimated by animals, quicksand bogs, hunger and cold. The last five go overboard in a storm and drift as a gruesome quintet to frighten ships passing them.
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In Content Item: FlagDanger #11 published August 1954
as Escape to Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]The only differences I noticed for the code change was in colors. The floating bodies were fleshed out in the code version rather than white skeletal. A hit with a poison dart was colored red in the original but not in the code version.
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For You....Your Family....Sweetheart....Friends

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Feature(s): Empire Photo-Stamps
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Night Air

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A doctor treats a strange patient, the lovely Mara. She insists on staying indoors at night and keeping the windows strictly closed, because she feels stalked by vampires. One night the doctor ignores her pleas and is shocked to be confronted with evil.
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Disclose Notes: Previous indexer suggested Rudy Palais? for pencils.
First-person narrative.
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Notes From the History of Horror

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Synopsis: Accounts of cannibalism and the inquisition.
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"Gruesome, Huh?"

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Synopsis: Review of the novels "Justine" and "Juliette" by Marquis de Sade.
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Short Cut

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Genres: adventure, horror
Synopsis: The bandit and tyrant El Toro wishes to be voted for president in the republic of Saldor. He uses every dirty trick in the book to get enough votes: Bribery, intimidation, blackmail. He is elected president, but shot dead the next moment by his own vice president.
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Blackheads "Pet Hate"

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Vacutex device for removing facial blackheads. Ballco Products Company, New York 18, New York.
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Explorer

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Genres: adventure, horror
Synopsis: A cruel captain commands an exploration into unknown territory. He kills dozens of natives and robs them of their resources.
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Kill These Hair-Destroying Germs with Ward's Formula

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Ward's Formula scalp treatment from Ward Laboratories Inc.
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Feature(s): Dream Girl Fashion
First Line: She'll be your "Dream Girl"
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Disclose Notes: Ad for ladies' shear outfits.
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Save 70% Sacrifice Sale Swiss Watches

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Genres: informational
Feature(s): U. S. Diamond House
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover ad for watches.
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New Figure Mold Hide-A-Waist

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Feature(s): S. J. Wegman Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover ad for lady's waist trimmer.

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