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Issue: Spellbound #16
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #16 of 34 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Male Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Behind the Door!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Russ Heath [as R.H.] (signed)
Inker(s): Russ Heath [as R.H.} (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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When You Believe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An escaped con goes after his defense lawyer on Christmas day with the intent to murder him and his wife and child. The boy got a disintegrator gun as his present and he aims it at the convict which provokes fits of laughter. The boy pulls the trigger and disintegrates him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #3 published April 1974
as When You Believe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: C-818
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Werewolf Village

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (illustration)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #5 published February 1952
was Welcome to the Werewolves [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Werewolf Village"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9372
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Too Human to Live!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vic Carrabotta [as Carrabotta] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Abel [as Abel] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A human-looking robot employed to work in a factory of mechanical robots resents the conditions of his employment as he doesn't know he's a robot. When he meets a pretty young lady and makes a date with her, he tries to escape the factory, but the other robots take him back to his workstation. He makes a dash for the fire escape but the other robots pursue him and he falls from an open window to smash to pieces on the ground below. The robot supervisor says that it is unfortunate when robots come to think of themselves as different from other robots merely because they look different.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBeware #1 published March 1973
as Too Human to Live! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: C-703
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Only A Rose!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): Matt Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A woman suspects her husband of cheating on her and so she follows him during the evenings where he is seen giving flowers to young girls. She becomes enraged and sends poisoned candy to her victims. After several deaths reported in the newspaper, her husband reveals that he was delivering flowers to make extra money to buy her a gift. His wife is stricken by remorse for the poisonings, and eats a few of the chocolates the husband has left on the table, which turned out to be poisoned.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDead of Night #3 published April 1974
as Only a Rose [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: C-613
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.
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A Very Grave Matter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Inker(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Two brothers get hired as watchmen for a cemetery. One falls in a grave and calls for help. A bystander tries to dig him out and the other brother thinks he's grave robbing and shoots him. A month later, the buried brother returns as a zombie and strangles his brother.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: C-774
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Behind the Door

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A wealthy old man builds a viewing device so powerful that it even displays Death approaching him. He hires bodyguards and builds a vault to hold Death once the beam reveals its presence.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #78/79 published February 1978
In Content Item: FlagBeware #1 published March 1973
as Behind the Door [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: C-635

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