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Issue: Startling Terror Tales #11
Publication Date: July 1952
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Issues: #11 of 5 Issues (6 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Black Cover
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Publisher: FlagStar Publications
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
2 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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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
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Alternate Cover - Black

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Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Same as first cover, but with a black ink overlay around the logo. According to Heritage Auctions, the "black" cover was printed first, found to be a mistake and then switched. Approximately 1 in 10 copies of this issue are the "black" cover.
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The Ghost Spider of Death!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Battefield
Inker(s): Ken Battefield
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
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Pages: 27
Disclose Notes: Reprinted story apparently 2 pages shorter than the original appearance.

Art identification based on Battefield’s signed stories from Super-Mystery Comics #v6#6 (July, 1947), Western Crime Busters #8 (December, 1951), and Crime Mysteries #1 (May, 1952). Similarities include the light shining from light sources being drawn as spiky circles, onomatopoeia drawn as bold black letters with exclamation points, and faces drawn with simplistic details, unless it’s a close-up. Battefield is also particularly keen on shading scenes, with him not only shading characters’ backs in a distinct way, but also their faces, occasionally to the point of obscuring them with shadow for dramatic effect. He also tends to draw the antihelix of the ear either with what resembles a regular “S” or a backwards “S“, and shade hair with squared blotches resembling stacked lines.

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