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Issue: Web of Evil #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1952
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 07/16/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred Grenet (Editor); Richard Arnold (Associate Editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 268.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Ghosts of Doom

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Chuck Cuidera ?
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Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George F. Jowett
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typeset
Subject Matter
Jowett Institute of Physical Training
Roger D. Hirsch (photo); George F. Jowett (photo)
I gained 53 lbs. of shapely power-packed muscles!
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Miscellaneous
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Ghosts of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
horror
Melissa Harraby; George; Sandy; Ernie; Nick; Pete; Ellsworth Harraby; Mr. Harraby (ancestor in flashback); Wicks
Across the moonlit swamps it came... the weird croon of the dead!
Zombies and a giant crocodile populate the eerie Everglades. Gangsters arrive from Miami with a kidnap victim, looking for a hideout. Soon the parties battle each other.
Reprinting
FlagIntrigue #1 published January 1955
as Death Swamp [Story on Interior Page(s)]Shortened by 1 page and retitled, original story was called "Ghosts of Doom"
FlagTerror Tales v4 #1 published January 1972
as The Swamp Devils [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
Miscellaneous
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The Phantom Freaks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
horror
Emil Lorenz; The Snake-Man; The Giraffe-Man; The Mule-Man
Perhaps one man in a million is in a position to control the destinies of those less fortunate than himself!
Emil Lorenz runs a carnival freak show and mistreats his animal-like creatures. When he burns them in a fire to collect insurance money and open up an amusement park, Lorenz is being haunted by his victims.
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Miscellaneous
6
Custodian of the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole ?
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
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?
Subject Matter
horror
Horace Vennery; Egbert Madison; Mrs. Ruperts
Horace Vennery, the town undertaker, had built up a neat little sideline -- robbing corpses!
Undertaker Horace Vennery is a graverobber at night, stealing valuable possessions off his dead clients. Crawling through coffins, he is caught in a cave-in and eaten by rats.
Reprinting
FlagTales from the Tomb v4 #1 published February 1972
as The Ghoul [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #7 published January 1992
as Custodian of the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Custodian of the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Laughter of Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Rita Manson; Don Galter; Mrs. Galter
Rita gets the man she loves and a gold mine.
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Miscellaneous
1
Rehearsal for Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
horror
Simon Fenton; Jason Worthington; Johnny
Do your last speech over again, Fenton!
Understudy Fenton demands his chance on stage and murders leading man Worthington. However, Worthington’s ghost returns for a night-long rehearsal of Hamlet’s death scene. Fenton dies of exhaustion.
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FlagTerror Tales v3 #6 published November 1971
as Nightmare [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Illinois Merchandise Mart
You can draw on your very first try-
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
50 combat action plastic toys
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Why haven't TV owners been told these facts?
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?; ? (photograph)
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typeset
Subject Matter
How to fix any part of any car
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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