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Issue: Adventures into Darkness #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1953
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: Standard ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 3.
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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
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Mark of Evil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed)
Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed)
?
Herb Field
Subject Matter
horror
A ruthless reporter kills for a camera which is able to show future events. When the gadget shows his own doom, he flees - but is caught by the police.
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Miscellaneous
6
B-1381
Creepy Crossword Puzzle

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
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B-1470
Follows upper half page of advertising.
Illustration of a skeleton trying to answer the riddle.
Death's Bridal Gown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sam Citron
Sam Citron
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Young Olga goes to the dance in a second-hand dress. Not only is she haunted by the ghost of the former owner, but dies wearing it - because it was drenched in embalming fluid.
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Miscellaneous
6
B-1429
The Beast Wasn't Hungry

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
R. S. Fenton
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Two adventurers in Africa fight over a hidden treasure and try to feed each other to the crocodiles.
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Miscellaneous
2
The House That Jackdaw Built

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Toth
Mike Peppe
?
John Duffy
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
Mr. Jackdaw entertains his guests in a futuristic "robot house". The electronic brain of the house tries to murder the guests, because Master Jackdaw taught it only to hate. When the brain realizes that there's also love, it turns against its inventor.
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FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as The House That Jackdaw Built [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
B-1421
The Fatal Strands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Charles Sultan
Charles Sultan
?
Herb Field
Subject Matter
horror
A janitor murders his bossy landlady – and is in turn being murdered by the landlady’s hair (he used to mop the floors with).
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Miscellaneous
5
B-1450
The Twisted Hands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Toth
Mike Peppe ?
?
Herb Field
Subject Matter
horror
After a traumatic event at sea, a skipper retreats into the desert. But the ghost of a man (whom the skipper broke his hands) comes for him and drowns him with equal cruelty in a waterhole.
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FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as The Twisted Hands [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
B-1454

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