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Issue: Adventures into Darkness #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1952
 
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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): Joe Archibald (uncredited)
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
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
George Roussos ?
George Roussos ?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Murder Mansion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Toth
Mike Peppe
?
Herb Field
Subject Matter
horror
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
FlagSeduction of the Innocent! #2 published November 1985
as Murder Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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
FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as Murder Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
B-1130
signed by Peppe on page 2 panel 1
Drury's Dream

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Art Saaf
Art Saaf
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Man dreams about his death and really dies the next day.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
B-1118
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".
Death Follows Orders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jerry Grandenetti [as JG] (signed)
Jerry Grandenetti [as JG] (signed)
?
Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
horror, war
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.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
B-1136
The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Toth
Mike Peppe
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
A pack of dogs predict the owner's death by running around castle Eyne.
Reprinting
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)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
B-1116
The Chimes of Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Irwin Shapiro
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
After Charles Hanover has killed his rich aunt, he is driven insane by guilt and hears an unending chiming of her grandfather clock.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
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.
Horror's Little Acre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ruben Moreira (signed)
Ruben Moreira (signed)
?
John Duffy
Subject Matter
horror
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
FlagSeduction of the Innocent! #2 published November 1985
as Horror's Little Acre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
B-1112
The Phantom Warning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
occult
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.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
B-1099
Day of Reckoning!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
John Celardo
John Celardo
?
Herb Field
Subject Matter
horror
Larry Gordon; Rosalinde Gordon; Virginia
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
in Des Comics et des Hommes (Edition du temps, 2005 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
6
B-1137

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