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Issue: Weird Mysteries #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1954
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Issues: #8 of 12 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStanley Morse
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Gillmor Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Two robbers find a skeleton inside the safe they busted open.
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Pages: 1
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I Killed Mary

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Bland weakling Robby is ignored and ridiculed by his family and peers for being nondescript and dull. When he decides to kill the local pretty girl Mary to prove he can be dangerous and exciting, no-one believes he did it. Distraught at not getting any respect or credit for being bold and daring, Robby then hangs himself out of depression.
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In Content Item: FlagChilling Tales of Horror v1 #1 published June 1969
as I Killed Mary [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTerror Tales v2 #1 published January 1970
as I Chopped Her Head Off! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #5 published January 1992
as I Killed Mary [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Premonition

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A college student has a premonition that his home town was destroyed by devils from hell. When he gets home, he's relieved to see his parents are OK and that it was all a dream. He doesn't notice they have devil tails...
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In Content Item: FlagShock v1 #1 published May 1969
as Premonition [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird v4 #1 published February 1970
as Devil Ghouls [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Tales #4 published August 1973
as Premonition [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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The Witche's Curse [sic]

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A broken man who's tired of being bullied by his brutish wife goes for a walk one night and encounters a witch. She offers to change him into anything he wants and warns him not to tell anyone about her. He asks to be turned into a powerful black knight so he can kill his wife. After the deed is done, he's upset about not getting credit for the murder and tells the police what happened. They don't believe him, but since he ratted on the witch, she turns him into a rat before their eyes. The rat is then hung for the murder of the wife.
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In Content Item: FlagShock v1 #1 published May 1969
as The Witche's Curse [sic] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird v4 #1 published February 1970
as The Vampire Witch [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagGhoul Tales #3 published March 1971
as Witches Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Tales #1 published February 1973
as The Witche's Curse [sic] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Bum Ticker

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A young go-getter man is upset that he has a weak heart and is told by his doctor to give up his lifestyle. Depressed, he finds out about a strange doctor that can help him using unorthodox methods. He agrees to get surgery by this doctor and everything turns out fine. That is until he finds himself speeding up or slowing down at unnatural levels. Finally his heart breaks apart and it's revealed that the doctor had replaced his heart with a mechanical one.
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In Content Item: FlagChilling Tales of Horror v1 #1 published June 1969
as Bum Ticker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v2 #1 published January 1970
as Better Off Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 5
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The One That Got Away

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A prize fisherman and his friend go fishing in a stream. When the fisherman gets killed by hundreds of fish looking for revenge, his friend who managed to escape, realizes that he was "The One That Got Away".
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In Content Item: FlagChilling Tales of Horror v1 #1 published June 1969
as The One That Got Away [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v1 #9 published November 1969
as The Bloody Stream! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #8 published May 1993
as The One That Got Away! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Come and Get Me!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2

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