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Issue: Black Cat Comics #51 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #51 of 65 Issues (68 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Black Cat MysteryView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Home Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#1-58); standard Silver Age US (#59-65)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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The Old Mill Scream!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Black Cat Mystery
First Line: The long wait of silence follows...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #2 published August 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]with different color scheme
In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Black Cat #51 Cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Old Mill Scream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Steve Gaunt; Cambria; Harry Stokes
First Line: It came through the night...
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In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #2 published August 1991
as The Old Mill Scream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #2 published November 2011
as The Old Mill Scream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Did They Exist?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Johnny Appleseed; John Henry; Casey Jones
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Wrong Way

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Max's wife
First Line: If I can't have him, then nobody can!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
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Come Back Bathsheba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Doc Waters; Sally Waters; Mr. Parsons; Mrs. Mayberry
First Line: You're drunk, Doc!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #2 published August 1991
as Come Back Bathsheba [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics #[nn] published April 2012
as Come Back Bathsheba [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Parody intended for Flip #3. Howard Nostrand reports in Squa Tront #13 (2012) that this story was written by Nat Barnett.

Previous indexer wrote that this is a parody of the movie "Shane" but it is actually a parody of "Come Back, Little Sheba," a 1952 film based on a 1950 play.
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Punch and Rudy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rudy; Slug; Punchy; Red Torrance; Biff Willis
First Line: Go ahead, Punchy!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #2 published August 1991
as Punch and Rudy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: In the final scene, Punchy is implicitly using his crooked ex-manager as a punching bag. The penultimate panel is blank, presumably a victim of the anti-comics hearings then being waged.
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Greek Mythology

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Prometheus; Pandora; Hades; Jason
Synopsis: Prometheus; Pandora; Hades; Jason
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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One, Two, Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Martha Laswell; Timothy Laswell
First Line: He drove the car up the lonely road.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
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Switcheroo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Robert Aimes; Grace Aimes; Carl Parsons; Sue; Josiah Welsh; Teddie
First Line: Sit -- Sit -- Sit!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #2 published August 1991
as Switcheroo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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