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Issue: Mysterious Adventures #21 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #21 of 25 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStory Comics
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Story Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): Hy Fleishman ?
Inker(s): Hy Fleishman ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Dean Ross Piano Studios

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Patented Automatic Chord Selector
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The Choker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru ?
Inker(s): Ross Andru ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A necklace has been in the husband's family for generations and takes revenge on the woman who killed him by strangling her and putting the blame on her boyfriend who hangs for her murder.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v6 #2 published March 1974
as The Hanged [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: First-person narrative by a choker, a diamond necklace.
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Stops "Bed Wetting"

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Gary Pharmacal Co. Dry-Tabs
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Price Smash

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Dept. M dresses
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The Coward

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Savage ?
Inker(s): Bill Savage ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Butcher father breaks up son's engagement and son disembowels him in revenge in a very EC-esque tale. "Who's gutless now? Eh, eh, eh."
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v3 #6 published November 1970
as The Gutless One [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 6
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Horror of the Guerrilla

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ellen Lynn
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: Tim Chapman steals penicillin to sell on the French black market. But when he double crosses the local guerilla, he has to pay with his life.
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Beauty and the Beast

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Hy Fleishman ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Mother Ghoul's Nursery Tale
Synopsis: Woman avoids the executioner by promising to bring the king the fortune of the Beast. She tries for months to get the beast to kiss her and turn into a prince, but he avoids her. She tries to kill him & fails. When she does kiss him, he turns into a handsome prince and she turns into a hideous beast.
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Stops "Nail Biting" Habit Instantly

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Elmorene Co. for anti-nail biting formula
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400 Movie & TV Star Pictures

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Hollywood Star Pix
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Blood Thirsty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Beck ?
Inker(s): Dick Beck ?
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Girl visits her grandmother and becomes convinced she is a vampire. Granny is incensed and insulted because she is really a ghoul and kills her granddaughter in fit of pique.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v4 #6 published December 1970
as The Angry Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 6
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Prizes Given

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for The FUNman Fun Club
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Beads Contain Water from the Miraculous Fountain at Lourdes

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Inspiration Guild, Inc. prayer beads (which, in an ultra-violent horror comic, is pretty amusing)
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Do You Need Money?

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Cheerful Card Company

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