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Issue: Witches Tales #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1954
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Issues: #23 of 28 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey
Disclose Notes: Date misprinted as February 1953 in indicia, as noted by Mike Catron via the GCD Error Tracker.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lee Elias (signed)
Inker(s): Lee Elias (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
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In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #43 published May 1955
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Dear Readers

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leon Harvey ?
Penciller(s): Bill Benulis ?; Howard Nostrand; Joe Certa ?; Bob Powell
Inker(s): Jack Abel; Howard Nostrand; Bob Powell ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory text with small partial panels from this issue's stories.
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Henry Small.... Huckster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Manny Stallman
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Henry Small
Synopsis: Henry Small is a con man who will talk his way out of any predicament, until he is finally shot dead. Facing the devil Small strikes his next bargain.
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In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #43 published May 1955
as Enriquillo el Vendedor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Comics That Ate My Brain! #[nn] published January 1991
as The Huckster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Sid Jacobson's name is on a billboard on the splash panel disguised as Sid J. Kobson, indicating he probably wrote or edited the story or the comic. Another name on the board is "Basil G. Umblower."
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Mister Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Synopsis: A man starts seeing people who aren't there and lands in an asylum.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
First Line: As I was going along, long, long...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Solomon Grundy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Criminal version of the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme.
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Ivan's-Woe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Boo of the Month
Character(s): Sir Ivan Gwaine of Hampshire; Sir Gerald; Elizabeth; Fitzhugh; Sir Hugo Lavon of Blackmore; King John
Synopsis: Sir Hugo duels Sir Ivan after a slight from Elizabeth. Ivan wins, but is horribly disfigured.
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In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #43 published May 1955
as Ivan-Oh [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Edge #1 published June 1993
as Ivan's-Woe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: "Boo of the Month" (Ivanhoe parody)

Thanks to Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine for the artist information.
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The Wig-Maker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Certa ?
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Lem Boone is a famous wig-maker. The secret to his life-like wigs is that he robs graves and scalps the dead. Boone goes too far when he desecrates the burial mound of an American native warrior.
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In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #43 published May 1955
as El Peluquero [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Comics That Ate My Brain! #[nn] published January 1991
as The Wig-Maker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Cover story
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Doomsday

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: The night watchman of an art gallery is frightened by the exhibited horror art.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
First Line: A farmer went trotting on his gray mare,...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand ?
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
First Line: See a pin and pick it up,...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Criminal version of a nursery rhyme.
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So What Next

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Receptionist Dona Chepper sits all alone by the phone, fearing that the madman terrorizing the town might come to visit her.
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In Content Item: FlagCuentos de Brujas #43 published May 1955
as Y Después Qué? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #2 published November 2011
as So What Next [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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