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Issue: Fantastic Fears #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1954
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Issues: #9 of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFarrell
Brand: A Farrell PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Four Star Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 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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If a Body Kill a Body...
 
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Deadly Wish
 
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Title Page
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Greed to Grave
 
Interior Page
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Secret Cave
 
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Broom for a Witch
 
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Deadly Wish

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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If a Body Kill a Body

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Two Scottish highlanders from warring families have a taboo love affair. When they are respectively killed by the patriarchs of their rival families, they come back as ghosts to get revenge.
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Pages: 7
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Deadly Wish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Wilbur Cox; The Devil; Joyce; Mrs. Bloater; Dr. Trent
Synopsis: Wilbur is "the original ninety-pound weakling with no brains, no dough." The Devil gives Wilbur the power to make his wishes come true, but Wilbur is unaware of this. He wishes for a new car, a million dollars, and a beautiful wife, all of which come true. Then the Devil springs the trap: Wilbur's wife Joyce becomes a nagging shrew and he wishes her dead. Sad at her passing, he says "I wish I were dead too," and he dies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v1 #6 published July 1969
as Hell Below [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Greed to Grave

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Pages: 2
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Secret Coffin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lord of Mader; Ben Matterman; John; Hans; Johann
Synopsis: The Lord of Mader in Germany created an Iron Maiden that he used to kill his enemies. 500 years later, his descendant Matterman takes possession of Mader Castle to house his "torture museum." One of the workmen hired to renovate the castle dies in an accident, and Matterman murders the only witness. However, he's then confronted by the ghosts of his ancestor's victims and dies in the Iron Maiden. Mader Castle explodes.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v3 [2] #1 [5] published January 1968
as Secret Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird v4 #2 published April 1970
as Secret Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Galaxy v1 #10 published June 1971
as Secret Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagHorrific #1 published September 1952
was Iron Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Original title: "Iron Doom."
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Broom for a Witch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Dan; Alicia; Tabitha Morrison; Dr. Sykes
Synopsis: Dan and his wife Alicia arrive at his ancestral home near Salem, Massachusetts. The house was built by his ancestor Tabitha who was hanged as a witch. While Alicia sleeps, Tabitha's spirit possesses her body. Alicia begins to act in an evil fashion (and even flies through the air on a broom), so Dan consults Dr. Sykes. They capture and burn Alicia/Tabitha and the house. However, Alicia's soul enters the body of a young woman killed in an auto accident at the same time, and she is reunited with Dan.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v1 #7 published July 1969
as Broom for a Witch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTerror Tales v2 #6 published November 1970
as Broom for a Witch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v4 #3 published May 1972
as Broom for a Witch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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