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Issue: The Purple Claw #1
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: A Minoan MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Minoan Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 09/05/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 203.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover does not refer to any of the stories in this issue.
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The Power of the Purple Claw

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Dr. Gool (villain, death); Tom Bradley (undead); Alice Bradley
First Line: Out of the thickly overgrown, mysterious jungle of Africa ...
Synopsis: The first two pages relate how in 1943 Dr. Weir told an African witch doctor how to combat malaria and in gratitude was given the Purple Claw. The main story tells how Dr. Gool uses a radioactive fluid to raise the dead, who obey him. He tells Dr. Weir of his evil plan to conquer the world. The undead, and Dr. Gool, are easily defeated by the Purple Claw.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #9 published February 1954
as The Power of the Purple Claw [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPurple Claw #8 published January 1958
as The Power of the Purple Claw [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Devil Is a Dame!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Brima Stone (villain, death); Lug Garrison (death); Mayor Jones; Chief Matthews
First Line: Why did you have to come snooping around for, flatfoot?
Synopsis: Brima Stone is a she-devil who uses an enchanted gun supplied by Satan as well as her demonic minions to commit crimes that overcome the city. Luckily Doctor Jonathan Weir (aka The Purple Claw) arrives to stop her.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #9 published February 1954
as The Devil Is a Dame! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPurple Claw #8 published January 1958
as The Devil Is a Dame [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #4 published January 1991
as The Devil Is a Dame [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #34 published January 2001
as The Devil is a Dame! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure, horror
Character(s): Senor Garcia; Viceroy Don Francisco (death, flashback); Don Miguel (death, flashback); Donna Isabel (wife of Don Miguel, death, flashback); Don Carlo (villain, death)
First Line: Stark terror filled the ancient streets...
Synopsis: Taking a holiday trip to Zocalo, Jonathan involves himself in the murders of people; the act tolled by the clock at midnight, supposedly by the ghost of Don Carlo.
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In Content Item: FlagPurple Claw #8 published January 1958
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #1 [First Edition] published January 1989
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Layout credit by Craig Delich.
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Doorway to Darkness

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Jonas Correy was a clever man.
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In Content Item: FlagPurple Claw #8 published January 1958
as Doorway to Darkness [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Problems of Space Travel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: The world is rapidly approaching the era of space travel.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #1 published June 1952
was Problems of Space Travel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2

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