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Issue: Strange Fantasy #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1953
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFarrell
Indicia Publisher: Farrell Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ruth Roche
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
? (Iger Shop)
? (Iger Shop)
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?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Death Strikes Four

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger Shop)
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?
Subject Matter
horror
A party of four friends visits a country home. Little do they know that the clock tower nearby is inhabited by an evil spirit. The clockwork runs on human flesh and blood - as the friends soon find out.
Reprinting
FlagTales of Voodoo v2 #1 published February 1969
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTerror Tales v2 #4 published July 1970
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagStrange Galaxy v1 #9 published April 1971
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagHorror Tales v4 #1 published January 1972
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWitches Tales v6 #3 published May 1974
as Tick-Tock Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
FlagThe Black Legend #[nn] published January 1984
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Riddle of Manitou Rock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger Shop)
? (Iger Shop)
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?
Subject Matter
horror, western
Part indian hermit Terry lives under Manitou Rock, a sacred site. A friendly will o' the wisp guides him to a hidden bandit treasure, but some gangsters start to interfere.
Reprinting
FlagTales from the Tomb v1 #6 published July 1969
as The Riddle of Manitou Rock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTales from the Tomb v3 #1 published February 1971
as The Riddle of Manitou Rock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Ghost Cat

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
African ghost story from Kenya: The great hunters R'wana and Ngobi fight over the chieftain's daughter, Blina.
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Miscellaneous
2
Original title: "The Legend."
Guided Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger Shop)
? (Iger Shop)
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?
Subject Matter
war
Captain Davis, a pilot in the Korean conflict, bravely manages to direct an unmanned plane (a guided missile) straight into its target - thus blowing up a railroad tunnel.
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Miscellaneous
7
Straight war story.
Cry from the Coffin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger Shop)
? (Iger Shop)
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?
Subject Matter
horror
A nameless man hits his head on a fire hydrant in the street and falls into a locked-in-state of being. Fully conscious, but unable to move or speak he has to witness identification by his unfaithful wife, an autopsy in which his heart is removed and his own funeral.
Reprinting
FlagWeird v1 #12 published October 1966
as Cry from the Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTales from the Tomb v1 #7 published September 1969
as Cry from the Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #7 published January 1992
as Cry from the Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6

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