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Issue: The Thing #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1952
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Issues: #4 of 17 Issues
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: An Outstanding Comics PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Outstanding Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 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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The Thing

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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The Hounds of Dartmoor

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Things You Should Know
First Line: Occasional victims have been found upon the moor ....
Synopsis: Account of phantom hounds of Dartmoor, allegedly the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
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I Was A Zombie

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Engineer Alden Blake is called to Haiti to build a dam. When he ecounters zombie slave laborers, Blake threatens to go public. He is turned into a zombie himself, but manages to take revenge.
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In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #22 published August 1975
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Pages: 8
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The Promise of Ying Ko

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Genres: adventure, horror
First Line: Back before World War II, Steve Payne was the third mate of an old tramp steamer ...
Synopsis: Skipper Steve Payne makes a living cruising the waters off the Chinese coast. After saving the life of a man called Ying Ko, Payne himself gets rescued years later by the now turned "pirate king" Ying Ko.
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The Unseen Thing

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A student of Indian Shawnee Theology wrestles in a university lab with an invisible demon from the beyond.
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The Petrified Ghost

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Terry Morse; Roger Burt; Rufus Helwig; Professor Lyle Yates
Synopsis: A sculptor is crushed to death by one of his statues. But his blood (and ghost) are absorbed by the sandstone. The statue comes alive and pursues his criminal business partners.
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Partners In Death

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Ray Bruce withhelds heart pills from his business partner Howard Croft, thus killing him slowly. But Croft's ghost returns to haunt his former associate.
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In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #22 published August 1975
as Partners In Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Twins of Doom

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Identical twins Peter and Paul Leverett are going to meet again after a ten-year separation. A rival steps in and kills Paul, sending Peter into (by twin-magic) a coma and summoning the local sheriff. Investigation of Peter's coma leads to the detection of Paul's murder.
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Things You Should Know
First Line: Weird flickering lights called 'corpse candles'...
Synopsis: Account of floating lights phenomena predicting deaths.
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Pages: 0.5
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