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Issue: The Clutching Hand #1
Publication Date: July 1954
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Norman Fruman (credited)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
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Yawning Graves!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ken Bald
Inker(s): Ken Bald
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Real McCoy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Oliver McCoy; Blackie Rome; Digby McCoy; Hepzibah McCoy
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock v1 #4 published November 1969
as The Real McCoy! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWicked Witchs' Tales [sic] #2 published February 1979
as The Real McCoy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Death at the Carnival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock v1 #6 published March 1970
as Death at the Carnival [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagChilling Tales of Horror v2 #5 published October 1971
as Death at the Carnival! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Tales #2 published April 1973
as Death At the Carnival! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDimension of Doom #[nn] published June 1984
as Death at the Carnival! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Vampires? Don't Make Me Laugh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lisa Casmana; Joe
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChilling Tales of Horror v1 #3 published October 1969
as Curse of the Vampires [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagThe Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! #[nn] published November 2010
as Vampires? Don't Make Me Laugh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Death of a Doll!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Rosenberger
Inker(s): John Rosenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Corpse-Maker (narrator); Harold Honeywell; Marilyn Meag; Daisy Bergen
Synopsis: Harold Honeywell (a man as small as a doll) becomes rich. When he finds out the women in his life are only interested in his money, he begins killing them. One day while fleeing from the cops, he hides in a gorilla cage at the circus. The problem is, the huge gorilla who lives in the cage has destroyed its favorite toy (a doll) and now finds a new "doll" it can play with.
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In Content Item: FlagShock v1 #4 published November 1969
as Death of a Doll! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Tiny Heads!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Grim Reaper (host); un-named jungle trading-post employee; Maloka (Chief of the Jovalis Tribe, death); Jovalis Tribe (all die); McGuire (villain, trading-post employee)
Synopsis: When the Jovalis Tribe refuses to sell any more shrunken heads because the jungle trading-post was not giving them enough money for them, employee McGuire decides to visit their village and get the heads, even if he has to kill all of the tribe to get them. But the tiny heads get their revenge in a big way!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagShowcase #[nn] published ?
In Content Item: FlagChilling Tales of Horror v1 #3 published October 1969
as Ghostly Revenge [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Inker credit added per reprint.
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Flowering Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Good
Inker(s): Ed Good
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Albert Rose; Ed Hilton; Henry Astor; Brophy; Mary Gold; Daisy Smith; Iris
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Yawning Graves!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Landau (signed)
Inker(s): Ken Landau (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Amos Frisby; Peggy Dalton; Ephraim
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Tales #7 published May 1974
as Yawning Graves! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Letterer identified by Mike Tiefenbacher on Facebook in January 2016.
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The Trainer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock v3 #4 published September 1971
as The Trainer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock #1 published January 1979
as The Trainer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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