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Issue: Witches Tales #24 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1954
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Issues: #24 of 28 Issues
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Witches Tales Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 28 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Editing credits from the issue's Statement of Ownership.
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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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Genres: horror
First Line: Even the dead feared the undertaker!
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In Content Item: Flag'50s Terror #1 published October 1988
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First Line: Start a fine business in spare time!
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First Line: Welcome
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First Line: Now you can fly a real jet plane!
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Undertaker

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Doxy
Synopsis: Doxy's father, the undertaker, refuses to let him go outside.
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In Content Item: Flag'50s Terror #1 published October 1988
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Pictures

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry Peck
Synopsis: Harry tries to snap real gory pictures for his boss.
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Pages: 0.8
Disclose Notes: This text story shares the page with the Statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation.
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Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
Character(s): Mother Mongoose (host)
First Line: Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
Synopsis: A woman's pussycat has brought home a lion.
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Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
Character(s): Mother Mongoose (host); Doctor Foster
First Line: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
Synopsis: Doctor Foster tries to get to Gloucester.
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Mutiny On the Boundary

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Genres: horror
Character(s): William Blah; Gobble; Hugh; Jamie; Lord Trewaine
Synopsis: Captain Blah treats his crew horribly.
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Disclose Notes: Boo of the Month (Mutiny on the Bounty parody).
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First Line: Get prizes... make money this easy way
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First Line: Read these different mystery magazines with the expert touch of master story telling!
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Disclose Notes: Covers of Black Cat Mystery #46, Chamber of Chills #20, Witches Tales #22, and Tomb of Terror #12.
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First Line: Borrow money by mail! On your signature only
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First Line: Look here!
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First Line: Reversible auto seat covers
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First Line: They claim this coupon brings you 'good luck'
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Eye Eye, Sir

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Rudy Crane; Lucy Latour; Jamie Latour
Synopsis: Lucy hires a private detective to find her husband.
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In Content Item: Flag'50s Terror #1 published October 1988
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Surgery

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Paul Laycoe; Bob Laycoe
Synopsis: Paul and Bob argue over one more operation.
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First Line: The cat of spine tales!
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Disclose Notes: Cover of Black Cat Mystery #49.
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Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
Character(s): Mother Mongoose (host); Jumping John
First Line: Here am I, little jumping John...
Synopsis: Jumping John jumps to the sea.
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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Mongoose's Nursery Crimes
Character(s): Mother Mongoose (host); Little Casino
First Line: We're all in the dump, for diamonds are trump...
Synopsis: Some crooks are playing cards.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics #[nn] published April 2012
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Monumental Feat

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Chappie Halstead; Don; Lem Hyatt
Synopsis: Chappie is impressed by some monuments to football players and wants a monument to himself someday.
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Disclose Notes: Pencil and ink credits via Benjamin Samuels and the original art pages.
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First Line: 20 ladies' dresses for $3.50
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First Line: 3 big comic cartoon books only 98¢
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Disclose Notes: Three books, and a bonus book, from Stravon Publishers, Army-Navy Joke Book, Golf Joke Book, Baseball Joke Book, and Perfect Crimes.
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First Line: Now fly like a bird!
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Disclose Notes: Reproductions of Leonardo Da Vinci's sketch of wings from Stravon Publishers.
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First Line: How to hypnotize
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Disclose Notes: The book How To Hypnotize from Stravon Publishers.
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Character(s): J. E. Smith (photo)
First Line: I will train you at home for good pay jobs in radio-television
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First Line: Men! Women! Take orders for famous nylons guaranteed 9 mos.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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