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Issue: Witches Tales #21 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #21 of 28 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Witches Tales Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color interiors; full color covers
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lee Elias
Inker(s): Lee Elias
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Text descriptions and thumb-nails from each of the 4 stories in this issue.
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Pages: 1
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The Invasion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bill; Bill's wife; John Bronheit
Synopsis: Bill and his wife stay home due to a storm. Their radio is broken and their television set can only get one channel because of the weather. They see a news broadcast depicting an invasion from outer space. Flying saucers land at Coney Island and wipe out the defenders. A Martian spokesman says all inhabitants of Earth will be eliminated. Bill shoots his wife and commits suicide. But the broadcast was just "an original tele-screen drama entitled The Invasion From Mars."
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In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as The Invasion [Story on Interior Page(s)]with changes
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Blind Alley

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 0.75
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
First Line: Now on sale at all newsstands!
Synopsis: House ad for "Ripley's Believe It or Not! Magazine." The cover of issue #1 is shown.
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Pages: 0.25
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
First Line: Tommy Trot ... a man we deplore!
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Pages: 1
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Revenge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Manny Stallman
Inker(s): Manny Stallman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Ron; Melissa; the town dandy
Synopsis: Ron and his wife Melissa go on vacation in a trailer. They camp near a small town and Ron goes to purchase supplies. When he returns, Melissa says she was raped. They drive around the town until Melissa spots her assailant, and Ron kills the man with a hammer. However, immediately afterwards Melissa sees someone else and says "There he is!" Ron realises she has gone insane and he just killed an innocent man.
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In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v3 #2 published March 1971
as Vengeance [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Based on the short story "Revenge" by Samuel Blas. This story was first published in Colliers (January 11, 1947). The story was also used as the basis for "Revenge," an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" shown on 2 October 1955, and also in the new Hitchcock television series in 1985. It also served (uncredited) as inspiration for the TV-movie "Revenge for a Rape" (1976).
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First Line: Honest Daring Uncensored
Synopsis: House ad for other Harvey publications. The page is in three sections. One lists four romance titles; a second highlights "Teen-Age Brides" (which is not one of the previous 4 titles); the third deals with Harvey's 4 "suspense" titles ("Witches Tales," "Black Cat Mystery," "Chamber of Chills," and "Tomb of Terror"). Covers of all 9 titles are displayed.
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The Chase

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Sparling
Inker(s): Jack Sparling
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Ellen Temple; John
Synopsis: Ellen and her boyfriend John visit an Asian tea shop, where an old woman warns Ellen to beware of the "Dark Man" and the "Teeth of the Dragon," and to remember "you have no wings!" Later, a man dressed in black tries to speak to her, but Ellen flees. She falls off a roof, hits a dragon statue and dies. The man in black says he was just trying to inform her that she'd inherited a million dollars from a distant relative.
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In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v2 #2 published March 1970
as The Slimy Gargoyle [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 5
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Come Fill the Cup

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 0.75
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Subscribe now to the newest treat in terror!
Synopsis: Subscription form for "Witches Tales" comic.
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Pages: 0.25
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
First Line: This is the man all tattered and torn
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Pages: 1
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Dead End

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Howard Nostrand?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Jim Trent; Nicholas; Pearson; Miss Adams; Madeline Trent; Teddie; Carl Andro
Synopsis: Business executive Jim and his wife Madeline leave for a vacation at their lodge, but Jim's ex-partner Andro--who had been sent to prison as a scapegoat--appears and blackmails them. Jim kills Andro and drags the corpse into their vacation home, only to discover his co-workers and children are there to give him a surprise birthday party.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v2 #1 published January 1970
as Gruesome Shock [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 5

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