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Issue: Adventures into Darkness #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1952
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Issues: #5 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: Standard ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/17/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: No credited editor in issue, but Joe Archibald was the Pines' comics editor-in-chief from 1948 to at least 1955. Ned L. Pines was the publisher and owner.
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 5.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Murder Mansion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Danny Nash; Helen Nash; Carson
First Line: You rotten blackmailers!
Synopsis: Gangster couple hides in an abandoned mansion and conjures up the demon Teneshad to do their bidding. But there's a price to pay. Teneshad grows ever larger and takes them prisoner.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSeduction of the Innocent! #2 published November 1985
as Murder Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGenius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth #[nn] published April 2011
as Murder Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]Republished from the original art
In Content Item: FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as Murder Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: B-1130
Disclose Notes: signed by Peppe on page 2 panel 1
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Drury's Dream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Frank Drury; Old Ben the sexton
First Line: Good morning, Frank!
Synopsis: Man dreams about his death and really dies the next day.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1118
Disclose Notes: A slightly different version of this story is implied to be true and collected by Charles Wood and published as "The Sexton of Chilton Polden" in the 1936 "Lord Halifax's Ghost Book".
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Death Follows Orders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, war
Character(s): Jacques Martin; Pierrette; Kranze; Schultz; Bacher
First Line: When Adolf Hitler sent his legions into France...
Synopsis: A unit of Nazi soldiers is being unearthed from an underground cave and comes alive again. They won't rest until they have executed their Führer's orders. A brave French girl burns the papers and the soldiers turn to dust.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-1136
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The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Out of the swirling mists they come...
Synopsis: A pack of dogs predict the owner's death by running around Castle Eyne.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1116
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The Chimes of Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? [2 spot illustrations]
Inker(s): ? [2 spot illustrations]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Hanover; Mrs. Swanson; Aunt Agatha
First Line: Back and forth...
Synopsis: After Charles Hanover has killed his rich aunt, he is driven insane by guilt and hears an unending chiming of her grandfather clock.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Irwin Shapiro, was a comics editor at Pines from 1949 to circa 1953, under Comics editor-in-chief, Joe Archibald. It is not known if he edited the horror comics.
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Horror's Little Acre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Tom Jordan; Mayda Jordan; "Mugger" Crandall
First Line: Tom!...A giant man-eating plant...
Synopsis: Honeymooners discover a killer's hideout. Luckily for them, the ground they walk on is cursed with the memory of an old unavenged murder. Nature itself turns upon the killer.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSeduction of the Innocent! #2 published November 1985
as Horror's Little Acre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: B-1112
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The Phantom Warning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Captain Richard Brown; Captain Stander
First Line: Turn back, captain!
Synopsis: A phantom apparition warns a ship about imminent destruction. The first skipper heeds the warning, the second doesn't and goes down with the ship.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1099
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Day of Reckoning!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Larry Gordon; Rosalinde Gordon; Virginia
First Line: This can't go on, Larry!
Synopsis: After a fire accident, singer Rosalinde Gordon turns into a bird woman with the ability to communicate with birds. When her husband smothers her in her sleep, he is hunted by dozens of birds and driven to death.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: in Des Comics et des Hommes (Edition du temps, 2005 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: B-1137

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