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Issue: Spooky Spooktown #9
Publication Date: June 1964
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Issues: #9 of 66 Issues (111 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Canadian
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1964
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.35 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
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Editor(s): Leon Harvey (credited); Sid Jacobson (actual)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Poil; Spooky
First Line: Now don't scare anyone on our picnic, Spooky! I hate scaring!
Synopsis: At the beach, Spooky finds a way to scare the seagulls without Poil realizing it.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: I reckon I'll have to shoot off the lock!
Synopsis: A western movie at the drive-in inspires Spooky to try booing a lock open.
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Pages: 1
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The Ghost of Many Faces

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
Synopsis: Spooky finds a secret ghost formula for a potion that give him the ability to look like anyone he chooses. After making himself look like Casper and then Wendy, he takes the form of a pig, at which point a witch comes along and turns him into a football. She takes him to her home, and since her magic is more powerful than his he can't do anything about it.
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Pages: 5
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Getting Unwitched

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Casper; Wendy
Synopsis: The witch gives Spooky, still in football form, to her children to play with; when they break a window she turns the football back into a pig, which gives Spooky the chance to turn back into himself and escape.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Story continues from "The Ghost of Many Faces."
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Casper Meets Nicky

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casper; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; Nicky
Synopsis: Casper meets Nicky, a ghost who, just like Casper, lives with three other ghosts who aren't very nice to him.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ghostly Trio
Character(s): Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
First Line: I like to scare things that look like they have real legs!
Synopsis: The Trio scare a stump.
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Pages: 1
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Better Be Quiet Zone

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nightmare
Character(s): Nightmare
Synopsis: Nightmare keeps the woodland creatures from waking a dangerous giant.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Letterer was previously credited to Joe Rosen, but an inspection of the story itself reveals the lettering is not in Rosen's characteristic style.
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Round the World Postmark: Cairo

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, non-fiction
Character(s): Fred Ripple; Alvin Bassett
Synopsis: Alvin tells Fred about his pen-pal in Cairo, and they discuss Egyptian history.
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Pages: 1.5
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Fright You Are

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ghostly Trio
Character(s): Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; Scarence
Synopsis: Fatso borrows a scary mask from Scarence, the mask-making ghost, to scare Fusso and Lazo.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Casper
Character(s): Casper; Jim
First Line: Oh, a museum!
Synopsis: Casper saves a suit of armor that a museum throws out.
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: Ah! My carrot patch is just about ripe for the picking!
Synopsis: Spooky can't keep rabbits away from his carrot patch.
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Pages: 1
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Handsome Haunt

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky; Poil; Gorjuss Orvis
Synopsis: Spooky eliminates his new competition for Poil's attentions.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nightmare
Character(s): Nightmare
First Line: I hear music!
Synopsis: Nightmare helps an opera singer regain his voice.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ghostly Trio
Character(s): Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
First Line: Your turn to cook dinner Fatso!
Synopsis: When the others demand that he cook dinner, Fatso borrows a recipe.
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Spic & Span Spook

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky
Synopsis: Spooky gets washed by a woman who mistakes him for a piece of dirty laundry.
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Pages: 5
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If You Want to Fight 'Em Join 'Em!

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky
Synopsis: Spooky puts one over on the local rich people, who are trying to run him out of town.
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Pages: 5
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Nobody's Friend

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Willy; Elmer; Old Ben
Synopsis: Willy and his family move to a small town, where no one will play with him until he saves them all from a flood.
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Pages: 0.75
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Great American

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Abraham Lincoln
Synopsis: The story of Abraham Lincoln.
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Pages: 0.75
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Witches Brew

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wendy the Good Little Witch
Character(s): Wendy; Witch Sisters [Thelma; Velma; Zelma]
Synopsis: When her aunts submit a witches' brew to the cooking contest to get revenge on the town, Wendy substitutes something of her own.
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Pages: 5

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