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Issue: Tales of Horror #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #5 of 13 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: A Minoan MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Minoan Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 11/21/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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
Format Notes:  
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Hand of Fate!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #5 published April 1953
as The Man Who Lost His Shadow! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover taken from interior splash.
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The Man Who Lost His Shadow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A hulking man with a violent temper is able to somehow get rid of his shadow. This causes him to become more docile and less violent. However his shadow now has a life of its own and begins to kill.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Mysteries #12 published January 1964
as The Man Who Lost His Shadow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Hand of Fate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Elsted; Evard; Katrina; Karl Hansen
Synopsis: A farmer seems unconcerned when his farmhands are murdered by vampiric monsters on lonely foggy nights. It's later revealed that the vampires are the farmer's mute wife and daughter.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Mysteries #12 published January 1964
as Hand of Fate [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #10 published March 2014
as Hand of Fate! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Sisters of the Witch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An ugly woman hates her three beautiful sisters. One night at an old inn, she discovers a secret room in the cellar that had belonged to witches. Studying the book of black magic she finds, she becomes a witch and casts spells killing her sisters until her own magic destroys her.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Mysteries #12 published January 1964
as Sisters of the Witch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Game of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: The worlds greatest chess player is challenged and defeated by a supernatural being who uses real humans as chess pieces. It turns out the being is the great Talchev (the previous worlds greatest chess player), who came back from the dead as a ghoul. Because he used supernatural powers to cheat, Satan appears to take Talchev back to Hell with him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Mysteries #12 published January 1964
as The Game of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer listed Ross Andru as possible penciller but Nick Caputo sees no sign of his style.

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