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Issue: Black Magic Comics #12 Public Domain
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Issues: #12 of 16 Issues (19 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagArnold Book Company
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Indicia Publisher: Arnold Book Company
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Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 21 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Jack Kirby ?: Joe Simon ?
Colorist(s): Jack Kirby
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: No! I didn't mean to pry at the lock of the forbidden room --
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008).
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Joan the Wad

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Joan the Wad
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside Front Cover.
Ad to send for a 'History of the Cornish Piskey folk'.
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Freak!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Mort Meskin ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Sylvia Brewster; Doctor Tony Austin; Bart Sheridan
Synopsis: Sylvia goes on a date with Doctor Austin, who has to make one house-call before they go out. While at the Sheridan house a storm comes and they are forced to stay overnight, where Sylvia learns the hidden family secret.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Possible Kirby script and Meskin inks per Nick Caputo, November 2012. Previous indexer credited Simon and Kirby on inks.
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Guardian Angel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin
Inker(s): Mort Meskin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
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Pages: 6
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I Wouldn't Let Him Die

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Letterer(s): typeset
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How 'Mini-Gym' Turns Plant "Drip" into Success Dynamo

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Joe Bonomo's Mini-Gym
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Disclose Notes: Top half of ad in comic-strip format.
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Hoof Beats of the Devil's Horse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Roussos
Inker(s): George Roussos
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
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Warning

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Draw the First Day

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Norton Products
Synopsis: An amazing invention, Magic Art Reproducer. Draw with no lessons or talent.
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Pages: 1
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The Mary Celeste: Ship of Evil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Eadeh
Inker(s): Al Eadeh
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Captain Deveau
Synopsis: The true story of the ship Mary Celeste.
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Pages: 1
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The Soul of a Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Draut
Inker(s): Bill Draut
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
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Pages: 8
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The Boy Who Was 2000 Years Old!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob McCarty
Inker(s): Bob McCarty
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Andy Loomis; Doctor; Professor Henning
Synopsis: While sick with fever, young Andy describes life in ancient Rome, in perfect Latin, which he does not know.
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The Monster of Zollmort Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Novelist Peter Fletcher visits Zollmort castle in Central Europe. By opening a sealed door in the dungeons, he releases the Zollmort monster. He and his wife have to fight for their lives.
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Song of the Undead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus
Inker(s): Vince Alascia
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: John and Dorothy Blaik travel through Mexico looking for folk songs. Native woman Xatl introduces them to the "Song of the Undead". Any singer will be doomed and fall prey to vampires. The couple does not heed the warnings.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
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The Alchemist

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A chemist poisons himself while searching for the elixir of life.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One small illustration (by Sid Check) presumably lifted from an existing comic story.
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The Phantom Python

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: British Colonial East Africa: The commissioner's daughter Tani is seriously ill and seeks help from native witch doctor Loganzi. She dies during the ceremony and Loganzi is hanged. But he and Tani haunt the land in the shape of a giant python snake.
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Pages: 6
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The Deformed of Zoar

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A crime happens in the valley of Zoar. A family robs and murders a traveler and gets cursed for generations by being born with deformities.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One small illustration (by Goldfarb/Baer) presumably lifted from an existing comic story.
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
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The Curse of the Bulaga!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Fawcette
Inker(s): Vince Alascia
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Explorer Jon Norland travels to Antarctica to hunt the fabled Bulaga beast. He finds it caught in a block of ice. After thawing it, the Bulaga comes alive and chases Norland around the world to his doom.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
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One-Inch Gamble

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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Science Fiction

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside Back cover.
House ad for UK reprints of Galaxy and Amazing Stories magazines, price of 1'6 each (so would make these the 1st series of the former and 2nd series of the latter.)
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The Man Eater!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.
House ad for Black Magic Comics (Arnold Book Company, 1952 series) #13.
Panel used is from Page 1, Panel 1 from 'The Man Eater!' story from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v3#1 (19) (December 1952).

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