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Issue: Fantastic Fears #8 [2] Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #8 [2] of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFarrell
Brand: A Farrell PublicationView Brand Images2
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On Sale Date: 1953
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover
 
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Title Page
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Careless Corpse
 
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Title Page
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Fiends from the Crypt
 
Interior Page
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Werewolf
 
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Carnival of Terror
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Webb ?
Inker(s): Robert Webb ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A dancing girl takes off her mask and reveals she's a hideous monster to a sultan.
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Pages: 1
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Fiends from the Crypt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Banco; Pietro; Signor Renzi; Mrs. Reni; Daughter of the Renzis; Green Horde
Synopsis: Chasing a thief named Banco into the Rome sewers, Signor Renzi and his partner, Pietro find Banco with all his body eaten. They try to escape the sewer, and find themselves hunted by the Green Horde. Renzi gives Pietro to them, then works a deal with the creatures who speak an unfamiliar language. Renzi agrees to find them victims. He makes a great profit over time. When considering his family, he decides to tell the creatures to forget about future victims. Angry, they grab his wife and daughter. He rushes to the sewers to beg for his family. The creatures already ate them. Renzi's next.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird v2 #2 published April 1967
as Fiends from the Crypt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTerror Tales v2 #2 published March 1970
as Fiends from the Crypt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Worlds v2 #3 published June 1971
as Fiends from the Crypt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v5 #1 published January 1973
as Fiends from the Crypt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v6 #2 published March 1974
as Where the Flesheaters Dwell [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #4 published January 1991
as Fiends from the Crypt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Werewolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Myron Fass ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Old Crone; Little Red Riding Hood; Zack Parker; Elmer Dowd; Tim Blaake
Synopsis: The Old Crone, saying she's the real grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood, tells the true story. Elmer Dowd turns into a werewolf. As a werewolf, he attacks Red Riding Hood. His friend Zach Parker shoots Elmer when in werewolf form, thinking it's just a wolf he's shooting. He shoots him again when the werewolf attacks Riding Hood again. Finally, Zach goes to grandmother's house to discover the horrible truth about Red Riding Hood's true nature. Parker realizes too late that Red Riding Hood is really a vampire instead of an innocent.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird v1 #11 published April 1966
as Little Red Riding Hood and the Werewolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v1 #9 published November 1969
as Werewolf! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Careless Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Doolin ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dave Tibbets; Becky Tibbets; Dan Burns
Synopsis: Dave Tibbets leaves his wife Becky so he can go to work. He crashes his car and dies. Not realizing he looks like death warmed over, he encounters a lot of people who do realize he looks that way as he heads for home. An elderly couple, a lady at a farmhouse, a trolley full of people all flee in terror. When he reaches his home, he finds Becky in the arms of his supposed-friend, Dan Burns. He kills Dan, but Becky passes out. He carries her upstairs, planning to kill her too. He sees himself in the mirror, telling Becky he has finally seen himself and her. He turns into dust.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird v2 #6 published April 1968
as Careless Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v3 #2 published March 1970
as Careless Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v3 #4 published July 1971
as Careless Corpse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Carnival of Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Chun, the Snake Charmer; Millie Sears; Joe Dugan
Synopsis: Chun, the Snake Charmer, who charms cobras with his flute, stays with the carnival he despises only to stay near Millie Sears. He reveals his attraction to Millie, who laughs. Joe has Millie tell Chun she'd go with him, and he shows her where his money's hidden. Chun shows her the money, which is kept protected in the cobra cage. Joe and Millie go to steal the money. Joe stabs Chun and the two cobras to retrieve the cash. Chun appears, saying it was his dummy Joe stabbed. Chun delivers the Cobra Curse, turning the pair into cobras. The pair as cobras kill Chun. They are stuck as cobras.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird v3 [2] #1 [5] published January 1968
as Carnival of Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v2 #2 published March 1970
as Carnival of Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v4 #3 published May 1971
as Carnival of Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story is the basis for the following issue's cover.

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