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Issue: Diary of Horror #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1952
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAvon
Brand: An Avon Publication
Indicia Publisher: Avon Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Adult Image
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): A. C. Hollingsworth
Inker(s): A. C. Hollingsworth
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: on inside front cover
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Beware of the Undead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel (signed)
Inker(s): Vince Alascia (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Trinidad tourist Nat Grear learns of the native lore of the Obeah man, a devil incarnate. There was a man named Tamiko who killed out of pure lust, until he fell to his death in a waterfall. Grear plans to shove his wealthy uncle into the cursed waters, but ends up drowning there himself. He now has all of eternity to spend and suffer along with the original Obeah man.
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Pages: 7
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The Mirror of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel ?
Inker(s): Vince Alascia ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: When on shore-leave sailor Steve Lajos changes into dapper businessman Robert Martin and robs unsuspecting ladies of their jewelry. The vain and arrogant Lajos meets his fate when entering the temple of mirrors, house of seven-armed god Struga. Lajos breaks the mirror which reveals his ugly inner self and is damned to live in the presence of vengeful Struga.
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In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published February 1971
as The Mirror of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]with alterations and re-lettered
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Pages: 6
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Diary of Horror!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): A. C. Hollingsworth
Inker(s): A. C. Hollingsworth
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Story Behind the Cover
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Pages: 2
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Two small illustrations are details from the front cover.
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The Ghost's Curse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Jarod Parks is secretary to successful classic dancer Mona Travis. Since Parks has gambling debts, he murders Mona and forges her last will. The dancer’s ghost, however, pesters Parks with haunting threats of his punishment after death. When Parks finally dies, he rots away in his grave fully conscious.
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Pages: 6
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The Phantom of Philip Hawks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): A. C. Hollingsworth (signed)
Inker(s): A. C. Hollingsworth (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Young lovers John Allen and Mary Kane set sail for their honeymoon voyage on their own ship, but they have been cursed by John’s rival, Philip. The jealous man wanted to have fair Mary for himself. Philip Hawks’ ghost commandeers the boat and they all perish at sea.
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In Content Item: FlagNightmare #2 published February 1971
as The Phantom of Philip Hawks [Story on Interior Page(s)]with alterations and re-lettered
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Pages: 6

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