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Issue: The Thing #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1954
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Issues: #15 of 17 Issues
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Charlton PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagSteve Ditko: Space Wars #[nn] published February 2005
In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as The Thing #15 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Worm Turns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
First Line: Out of the microscopic deep it came -- this terrible, hungry mutant worm that ate everything in its path.
Synopsis: Biologist Norman Thoma breeds an invulnerable super-worm and turns it loose on mankind. Humanity seems to be doomed.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as The Worm Turns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko: Edge of Genius #[nn] published January 2008
as The Worm Turns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as The Worm Turns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Day of Reckoning!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Those who knew him called Jabez Grimm a tight-fisted skinflint...
Synopsis: Three sailors kill the shipbuilder Jezab Grimm and board him up on his ship, the Mermaid. The Mermaid travels the seas for years and hunts down all of the murderers.
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In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as Day of Reckoning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as Day of Reckoning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn.
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Comeback!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Remember Flexo, the grotesque little man whose entire body was composed of something strangely like rubber?
Synopsis: Drama at the carnival: Flexo the rubber man kills snake lady Satana for her money. Returning to the scene of the crime some time later, Flexo is confronted by a vengeful Satana.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as Comeback! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as Comeback! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Tunnel To Terror

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
First Line: There was a worried look on the face of John Harrison as he walked towards the shack that served as office for the Harrison Construction Company.
Synopsis: While excavation work for an underground garage goes on, an undead witch rises from the ground and kills five workmen.
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Pages: 2
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If Looks Could Kill!

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Genres: horror
First Line: Ever been driven blind with fury... so insanely blind that you prayed for the chance to murder?
Synopsis: Surgeon Gustave Savage is kidnapped by the hypnotist Merlin. In an ensuing fight, Merlin blinds the doctor, but is killed. Savage transplants the dead man's eyes for his own and can see again. With fatal consequences, because his looks literally kill.
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In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #3 published June 1972
as If Looks Could Kill! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as If Looks Could Kill! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as If Looks Could Kill! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Family Mixup

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: This is the story of a man and a wife who loved each other to death!
Synopsis: The Becks, skinny husband and fat wife, hate each other and plot their spouse's demise. They succeed.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #7 published January 1992
as Family Mixup [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as Family Mixup [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as Family Mixup [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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