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Issue: Spook #23
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #23 of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStar Publications
Brand: A Star ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Star Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/02/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 144.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, mystery
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Weird Picture of Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An eccentric painter paints a beautiful woman and kills her husband so he can marry her. But the husband's vengeful ghost comes out of one of his paintings and kills him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Adventures #15 published January 1964
as A Weird Picture of Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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You Can't Kill a Dead Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A sheriff gets one over on a prospector who murdered his partner.
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In Content Item: FlagFantastic Adventures #15 published January 1964
as You Can't Kill a Dead Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Gorillas, Ghosts and Gangsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Synopsis: Boy sleuth Jerry and his partner Captain Spook (a ghost of a policeman), team up with an escaped gorilla to defeat some gangsters.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBlue Bolt v3 #3 [27] published August 1942
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Bloody Horror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: Kansas State Penitentiary riot.
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In Content Item: FlagFantastic Adventures #15 published January 1964
as The Bloody Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Appears to be from an Atlas "True Crime" title.
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His Conscience Drove Him Mad!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Feature(s): You Be the Detective Thriller
Synopsis: The reader is to solve the crime. Killer revealed in the last panel (which is upside down)
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In Content Item: FlagFantastic Adventures #15 published January 1964
as His Conscience Drove Him Mad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagPhantom Lady #13 published August 1947
was The Murder of Roger Medlo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Originally untitled.

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