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Issue: Amazing Ghost Stories #14
Publication Date: October 1954
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Issues: #14 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
Brand: St. JohnView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Marion McDermott
Disclose Notes: Entire issue (except for cover and ads) is reprinted from Nightmare (Ziff-Davis, 1952 series) #2.
Editor credit from certificate of ownership in issue 16.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
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Binding:  
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagPS Artbooks Softee: Amazing Ghost Stories - Monster #[nn] published July 2002
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Swamp Creatures attack a boat with a man and a woman in it

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Amazing Ghost Stories #14 Cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Death Dolls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Commissioner Billings; Mrs. Vanderhoff; Lieutenant Bill Wilson; Frosty Nelson (crook); Weston
First Line: It was a little room...
Synopsis: Dolls are seen committing crimes and a man becomes a doll to find out what was really happening.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was The Death Dolls [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Note at bottom of first page says "Copyright 1952 by Approved Comics".
Art identical to the first signed story, Compare grim faces in frontview in both stories.
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The Devil from the Deep!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Robert Strangeway (death); Doctor John Walden; Diana (a mermaid)
First Line: Robert Strangeway was dead!
Synopsis: Men bring a mermaid in from the ocean but find out she has a taste for human flesh.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was The Devil from the Deep! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art was previously credited to Edd Ashe ?
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Ghosts - with a Sense of Humor!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Mr. Caskin; The Reverend Doctor Eliakim Phelps
First Line: Mr. Caskin was very ill...
Synopsis: Article about poltergeists.
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From Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was Ghosts - With a Sense of Humor! [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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An Eye for an Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Doctor Ralph Collins; Frank Chester (patient)
First Line: The doctor grabbed his bag...
Synopsis: A doctor accidentally blinds a man during surgery, and the man gets revenge.
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From Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was An Eye for an Eye [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Dream Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Eric; El Ahmed; Van Nessan
First Line: She was alive...and yet dead...
Synopsis: A statue comes to life and becomes whatever the men around her want her to be.
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From Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was Dream Girl [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Pit and the Pendulum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [adaptation]
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Manuel Baroja; Vivaldo; General Lasalle
First Line: Numerous stories have been written...
Synopsis: A man goes nearly mad being tortured in Spain.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was The Pit and the Pendulum [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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