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Issue: Adventures into Terror #5
Publication Date: August 1951
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Issues: #5 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Current Detective Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Hitch-Hiker!/Find Me!/The Eye of Doom!/The Man Who Was Death!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (see notes)
Inker(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Sidebar art by Don Rico (taken from interior panel), Basil Wolverton and (possibly) Burgos. Woman's face by Joe Maneely.

The sidebar story "The Eye of Doom" is not in this issue. It would appear in Mystic #6 (January 1952).
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The Man Who Was Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Aliens from Jupiter disguise themselves as humans and infiltrate society planting bombs in humans and causing them to explode with a force greater than an atomic bomb to help them conquer Earth. This story focuses on one such victim; a doctor named Jim Banks.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 8286
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Find Me! Find Me! Find Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An artist draws an infinity art ad for his employer but gets trapped inside of it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: 8507
Disclose Notes: Rule inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rico.
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Black Vengeance

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A cowardly hunter kills a magnificent blank panther but it gets its revenge years later when it's mounted head in the hunter's trophy room comes to life and kills him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #17 published February 1954
as Beware of the Black Panther [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Beware of the Black Panther"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 8351
Disclose Notes: Illustrations from Mystic #3 (July 1951), "The Jaws of Creeping Death", Job #8183
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The Clock Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man who finds out he's terminally ill, pays a seedy murderer to kill him at "no later than two o'clock tomorrow" so he can die quickly (the man being too scared to commit suicide). Afterwards, he finds out he's not terminally ill and will live if he keeps his stress level down. Terrified of being killed by the murderer he hired, his intense fear cause him to die of a heart attack!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 5808
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The Hitchhiker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A driver picks up a hitchhiker one stormy night and hears on the radio that there is an escaped mental patient on the loose. Thinking the hitchhiker is the mental patient, he ends up killing him. When the police arrive on the scene it turns out the driver was the escaped mental patient!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 8363
Disclose Notes: Per Nick Caputo: "This looks like a number of hands were involved. Page 2 appears to be Reinman pencils. Pages 3 and 4 appear to be Sol Brodsky pencils with an unknown inker throughout."

Cover story. Although the scene depicted on the cover is completely different from the story.
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The Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man who accidentally let his friend fall to his death during a mountain climbing trip, is tormented by his severed disembodied hand.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 8428

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