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Issue: Haunt of Fear #21
Publication Date: November 1997
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Issues: #21 of 20 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGemstone
Brand: An Entertaining EC ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $3.45 CAD
$2.50 USD
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ? (reprint)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #21 published September 1953
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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An Off-Color Heir

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Laura [Harber] Rais; Gilbert Rais (Laura's husband, in flashback); unnamed priest; Baron Gilles de Rais [Bluebeard] (image only); Gilbert Rais [aka the new Bluebeard] (villain, Laura's husband, also in flashback)
Synopsis: Laura dreamed of being a famous painter, and years back her husband-to-be came by her studio to have his portrait painted. They fell in love, married, and moved to his planation home in Louisiana. In that home hung a portrait of her husband's French Baron relation, which haunted her, as did a room in the home that wouldn't open. Now, years later, she discovered a bottle of black ink in the bathroom for her husband's new beard, and when she was able to get the mystery door opened she found seven dead women lying there, and her husband, now with a blue beard and a razor in his hand...
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #21 published September 1953
was An Off-Color Heir [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Ulric, the undying (death); Dr. Emil Manfred (death); Saxton
Synopsis: A doctor transplants a cat's nine lives gland into a derelict in order to make money in death-defying stunts. The derelict betrays the doctor in order to keep more of the money, but the doctor has the last laugh by realizing the derelict is miscounting the lives he has left to lose since the dead cat had already used one making eight, not nine left.
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was Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Bobby Stopera, Michelle Neuffer, The Teenage Vampire, David Dellario, Frank X. Mattson, Bob Gorby, Rich Jaeger.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Fan art by Grant Smith, Dan Walper, Paul O'Leary; poem by Barry "Edgar A." McCollum.
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Corker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); unnamed woman (death); a psychologist (villain)
Synopsis: A woman with suicidal tendencies and the skeptical psychologist who loves her visit a swami who diagnoses her problem as stemming from her having witnessed the hanging of an obese man whose head popped right off the body releasing a 'decapitation Lamia' that has possessed her and, sadly, can only be removed by decapitation. She flees from the swami in terror, rushing down into the subway, where she finds herself thrown under the train wheels and the pursuing psychologist bursts into maniacal laughter as the Lamia possesses him.
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #21 published September 1953
was Corker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The High Cost of Dying!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); unnamed Commissioner of Health (death)
Synopsis: A man in nineteenth century Paris is faced with the choice of paying a licensed undertaker money he does not have to bury his wife or turning her corpse over to medical students for dissection practice because of a new ordinance passed by the Commissioner of Health. He drops a body off in the evening at the medical college, and the following day uses the money he's received to buy food and clothes for his starving children and to bury his wife. The medical students realize that the body they've received is that of the Commissioner of Health.
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #21 published September 1953
was The High Cost of Dying! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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