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Issue: Thrill Book! #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2004
 
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPure Imagination
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Indicia Publisher: Pure Imagination Publishing
On Sale Date: 03/10/2004
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1566850150
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $25.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 28 (23 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This shares its ISBN with another Pure Imagination collection, the first printing of The Alex Toth Reader #[nn]. The second printing of the Toth book has a new ISBN.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black & White
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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1 Content Item from another Issue reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagMenace #5 published July 1953 was Zombie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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Genres: science fiction
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Reprint Notes: This cover is almost identical to Strange Worlds #6 (Avon, 1950 Series) but more closely matches the re-worked art used on Doc Weird's Thrill Book #2 (Pure Imagination, 1987 Series)
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Pages: 1
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Thrill Book!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Title page and indicia
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Comics' Collapse in Context The Anti-Comics Crusade of 1954

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First Line: Pre-Code.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Article by Theakston with notes about the stories included.
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Men in Black

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jim Horton; Marion Horton; Gonzales; Luigi; Reilly; Hooded Bigots [Rocky; Pete]
Synopsis: After losing his job, Jim Horton organizes a gang that wears black hoods to beat and rob anyone he considers "foreign," but his bigotry leads to his death.
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Reprint Notes: Reprinted in black and white.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: C-608
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. The writer and artist of this story about anti-immigrant prejudice were the children of Jewish and Italian immigrants, respectively. This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959) as "I Am the Man Without a Face!" drawn by Joe Sinnott, and in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (January 1962) as "The Hidden Face" drawn by Steve Ditko.
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Burton's Blood!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A vampire sleeps for years after gorging on all the blood available to him in the atomic war of 1998. When he awakens and looks for another victim, he is astonished to find that humans died out long ago and only the human-like robots are left.
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Reprint Notes: Reprinted in black and white.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: C-288
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Cat's Death

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 8
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On with the Dance!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A dancer who wants a part threatens the girl who got it with a gun to resign. Unfortunately for her, this girl is a witch, and she hexes the dancer to dance in place without ever stopping until she starves to death and even then her corpse dances on and on.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-287
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The Fangs of the Wolf

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man who shoots dogs for fun is bitten by a werewolf. He even has hired a sharpshooter to kill any strays that might venture onto his property, but he regrets this action when he changes to wolf form and his hired hand shoots him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: D-449
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The Phantom Fliers

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Bill Chalmers; Nora Bentley; Werner Borth
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Pages: 7
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You're Gonna Live Forever

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Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: A gangster drinks a serum that will allow him to live forever and goes to hide out in the bayou where he falls into a pit of quicksand.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: C-323
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Your Name Is Frankenstein!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Frankenstein's monster
Synopsis: The Frankenstein monster seeks companionship and finds only rejection and hate.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: D-305
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The Monster of Frankenstein and the Plant

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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: recycled from story in issue #11; last appearance, until revived as "Frightenstein" in AC Comics
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The Fruit of Death

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 5
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Goddess of Murder

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Monstrous four-armed goddess Kali demands human sacrifices. When the lovely Caroline is chosen to be the next victim, her lover Kenneth comes to the rescue.
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Pages: 7
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Grip on Life

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A corrupt district attorney is brought to poetic justice by his wife who returned from the dead after a car accident. When she finds out that he doesn't love her anymore, she goes back to the grave - taking him with her.
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Reprint Notes: Reprinted in black and white.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: B-1725
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Half Man, Half ... ?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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The House that Lived

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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-723
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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Death Kiss

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Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Professor Casper Skeezer; Charlie; Louise; Rita;
Synopsis: Prof. Skeezer creates a sexy robot named Rita. However, she is so strong that her kisses kill men. Skeezer tries to destroy Rita before she can kiss him to death, but fails.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The professor's last name is spelled "Skeezer" on page 1, but on page 6 and 7 it is "Skeeter."
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The Killer from Saturn

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Genres: horror
Character(s): A municipal window clerk (villain)
Synopsis: The city's in panic as an alien-like serial killer stalks the streets at night. Twelve people have to die until clever police lieutenant Jordan comes up with an explanation and confronts the fiend, who turns out to be a mousy city window clerk who wears an imposing monster costume with stilts, who is taking revenge on those who abused him.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Art credits confirmed by Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd in Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits! (Chronicle Books LLC, 2001 series) nn (August 2001)
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Monster of the Mist

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Marine biologist Dr. Mornay discovers a giant sea serpent and keeps it close to study the creature. Mornay feeds the beast with sheep, but only teaches it a lust for blood. Mornay’s son and his fiancée arrive and help him prepare a deadly bait.
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Pages: 9
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Orgy of Death

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Genres: adventure, horror
Synopsis: Greedy Dr. Morgan discovers the remnants of a Phoenician cult on a remote island. He’s willing to sacrifice his niece Lela and his pilot Alan to get his hands on the lost treasure of Moloch. But tables are turned when the earth starts to quake and a volcano erupts.
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Pages: 9
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The Planet of Living Death

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Genres: science fiction
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Reprint Notes: Reprinted in black and white.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: D-276
Disclose Notes: The same story as the first story in Amazing Adult Fantasy #8
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I, The Robot

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Genres: horror, science fiction
Synopsis: A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal it after the robot has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.
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Reprint Notes: Reprinted in black and white.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: D-922
Disclose Notes: First apppearance and origin of M-11, the Human Robot of the Agents of Atlas.
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Rocket Ship!

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Genres: horror, science fiction
Synopsis: In the year 2005 a rocket ship heads for Venus to relieve over population on Earth, but unfortunately the atmosphere of Venus dissolves human flesh like acid.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: C-969
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Symphony in Death

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: When a music critic steals a work from a composer and passes it off as his own, the composer attaches a rope to a phonograph and strangles the critic slowly by playing the recording.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: D-406
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Werewolf!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man goes into the forest in order to find proof of werewolves and is attacked. He shoots the beast and returns home to his shrew wife, but he has been bitten, so she screams as he begins to transform. She shoots him in the back with a shotgun but he tears out her throat before he dies.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: C-482
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Zombie!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Gyps sends his zombie to bring back more money and a girl. The zombie then revolts and kills Gyps.
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Reprint Notes: Reprinted in black and white.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: C-952
Disclose Notes: Additional reprint information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V], 5/28/2006.
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Thrill Book!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Art by...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover including the splash page of "Skull of the Sorcerer" by Al Williamson.

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