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Issue: Amazing Detective Cases #13
Publication Date: July 1952
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Issues: #13 of 12 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: Comic Combine 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 Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
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Ghost Story

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Honeymoon of Horror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Hy Rosen
Inker(s): Hy Rosen ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gordon; Sara Vaughn
Synopsis: Gordon romances Sara to get her money, finally marrying her. He prepares to kill her on their honeymoon, only to learn Sara is already dead and he has married her ghost. Sara intends to haunt him so he runs to the police to confess his crimes, only to be thrown into an asylum where Sara continues to haunt him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: A-298
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The Strange Fingerprints

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #15 published April 1954
as Killer in the House [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]under the title "Killer in the House"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: A-100
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Close Shave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): Werner Roth
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dominic Costanza; Blackie
Synopsis: Blackie walks into Costanza's barber shop as he is closing and forces him to give him a shave. Blackie boasts about his exploits, recalling how he beat a coal shoveller on the steamer Grey Ghost to death. As Dominic has Blackie strapped down and the razor sharpened, he reveals the man Blackie killed was his son.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: A-348
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The Clinging Vine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Kida (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Jenny Wills; Herbert Wills; Dr. Keith
Synopsis: Jenny married Herbert for his money and hates how he spends his time devoted to his vines. Jenny wants to be with Keith but Herbert's health is strangely resilient. Jenny finally decides to destroy the vines, hoping the shock will kill Herbert, but she trips on a root and is tangled in the vines, which strangle her to death.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: A-296
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Cave-In

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Herbert Marson; Thawley; Tearle; Clayton; Galliardi; Joe Leonard; Ryan
Synopsis: Herbert steals Thawley's money and hides it in his lunchbox. Herbert misplaces the lunch inside the mine and heads in to find it again, only to be caught in a cave-in. Although he survives, he is trapped underground with rescue days away. He thinks at first his lunch will keep him alive - then he remembers he replaced his food with the stolen money.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: A-240
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Ghost Story

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
Character(s): Rocky Nixon; Red Collins; Harrington
Synopsis: On the electric chair, Rocky vows revenge on Collins and on Judge Robert X. Brown, the man who sentenced him. Soon after, the judge is killed by mysterious means which suggest only a ghost could have entered his home. Collins recalls how Rocky had a partner named Grey the Great who was a magician and could have pulled off the murder. As the police head out to get Grey, Rocky's ghost enters the police station to kill Collins.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: A-349

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