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Issue: Terror Illustrated #1

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Publication Date: November 1955

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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Brand: An Original EC Picto-Fiction Magazine

Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Company Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.25 USD

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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: Cover title is Adult Tales of Terror Illustrated. Features illustrated text stories.

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color Cover

Dimensions: Magazine Size

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Terror Illustrated

First Line: "Adult Tales of TERROR Illustrated" is the third in a new series of magazines...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Includes editorial (signed "The Editors") explaining the concept of the magazine.

The Sucker

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Genres: horror

First Line: You run.

Synopsis: A drifter is "turned" by a vampire, but doesn't understand this strange new condition and powerful urges, so he attempts to track the woman down. He continually feels that he has found her at last only to realize his mistake when he has slaked his blood thirst upon his latest victim. Eventually the citizens discover his hiding place and pound a stake through his heart and he dies without ever fully comprehending what has happened to him.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Cover story. Text story with B&W illustrations (some color-tinted). Adapted from "So They Finally Pinned You Down!" in HAUNT OF FEAR #6.

Sure-Fire Scheme

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: horror

First Line: Tim Haley lay on the bunk of his cage-like cell in the prison's Death Row.

Synopsis: A man awaiting execution fakes his own death by pretending to be dead. He had told his girlfriend earlier to come claim his body at a certain time after his "death" so he can be revived. Problem is, she comes 12 hours too late and his body had been cremated.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations (one tinted green).

Rest in Peace

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Genres: horror

First Line: Thursday: I feel impelled to write.

Synopsis: A man and his wife are near death. After the wife dies, he had her buried in the family crypt but was supposed to free her after she rings a special bell he had rigged to her coffin when she was ready to return to life. He fails to do so and she dies again in her coffin.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations.

Story closely resembles another Oleck-authored story, "Buried Alive", from BLACK MAGIC #28.

The Basket

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Genres: horror

First Line: The man was whistling softly as he trudged along.

Synopsis: A man born with two heads carries a basket around on his shoulder to prevent others from knowing of his condition. One of the heads is homicidal and when it begins to seize control, the good head opts for suicide.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations (some color-tinted). Adapted from the original story in HAUNT OF FEAR #7

The Gorilla's Paw

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

First Line: Floyd stood outside the curio shop window...

Synopsis: Uneasily eyeing objects in a curio shops' window, Floyd is summoned inside by the owner and induced to buy a mummified gorilla's paw for $25. He tosses it on his nightstand and goes to bed, but in the morning, the paw is covered with $25. The next day, the paw disappears, then reappears with blood all over it and one of his friends dead. Floyd soon learns that the paw will grant his wishes, with devastating results!

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Pages: 12

Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations (some color-tinted). Adapted from the original story in HAUNT OF FEAR #9. Writer Al Feldstein uses the pseudonym Alfred E. Neuman, which is the name of the mascot character of EC's MAD Magazine, which had relaunched only a few months earlier.