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Issue: Ripley's Believe It or Not! #85
Publication Date: January 1979
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Issues: #85 of 94 Issues (145 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0335009020801
Price: $0.35 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; later standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Herbert Headley; ghostly hand of Kenneth Eastland
First Line: The ghostly hand writes its message... of death!
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Pages: 1
Job Number: G-6002
Disclose Notes: The artist attribution and job number were found on the margins of the original art board.
The cover was originally intended for Issue #81, and bumped back to this issue.
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The Storm Meets Its Master!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor
First Line: Even I, Thor, god of storm and lightning cannot control this storm!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Located inside front cover.
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The Dead Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Herbert Headley; Kenneth Eastland; Joan Eastland; Harold Eastland; Justice Marlow
Synopsis: A greedy lawyer rewrites a dying man's will and inherits everything but is haunted by the dead man's ghostly hand until he finally confesses his crime and meets his punishment.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story. Script credit per Newman's records published in Robin Snyder's History of the Comics, Vol 2, # 8, August 1991.
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Phantoms in the Mirror

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Reginald Keating (poet); Professor Albert Jenkins; Reginald's sweetheart; Reginald's sweetheart's husband
Synopsis: While visiting an aged poet to discover the inspiration of his classic poems, Professor Jenkins witnesses a scene from the distant past in a mirror: a young Keating involved in the accidental death of his sweetheart's husband. As a result, the romance is forever doomed and the lovers can never see each other again. The poet confirms that, indeed, that incident was the dark source of his famous poems.
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Pages: 5
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The Tearful Ghost

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Japhet Wadderburn; Dona Mercedes; Huldy Craddock
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Pages: 1
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The Fatal Plunge

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Fred Holmes; innkeeper; Michael Langley; farmer
Synopsis: While riding along the rugged Irish coast, Fred Holmes sees a ghostly horse tumble over a cliff. Then, Fred sees a ghostly male also fall over the cliff. The innkeeper tells Holmes about how Michael Langley and his prize-winning stallion mysteriously vanished years ago and that Holmes has solved the mystery of the ghostly horse's repeated sightings. Both man and beast died falling over that cliff.
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Pages: 6
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Buried Treasure

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Brian Tyler (archeologist); Thalun (his guide); old woman (the Guardian Spirit)
Synopsis: An archeologist in Burma, skeptical of native superstition, is visited by the Guardian Spirit of a treasure. Appearing as an old woman during an earthquake, the Guardian Spirit convinces Tyler to abandon his dig.
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Pages: 3
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
First Line: Enjoy the loveable antics of Tom and Jerry
Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy toast marshmallows on a stove element just as chef Tom is about to fix his dinner.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Tom and Jerry comics. Located between story pages 1 and 2 of Buried Treasure.

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