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Issue: Tales of Horror #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1952
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Issues: #2 of 13 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: A Minoan MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Minoan Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 05/16/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 242.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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[untitled]

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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #2 published October 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Thing in the Pool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Ann Winsor; George Winsor; Sebastian Corday
Synopsis: An architect loses his secretary, who he's secretly in love with, to a young good looking man. Wanting revenge on the couple he offers them a huge mansion complete with a beautiful swimming pool as a gift. It turn out that inside the pool is a prehistoric furry tentacled monster. The architect encountered this monster years ago in a small watering hole and built the swimming pool over the hole to destroy the couple. Unfortunately for him the monster also makes him a victim.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #2 published October 1952
as The Thing in the Pool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #16 published January 1964
as The Thing in the Pool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #3 published February 2013
as The Thing in the Pool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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The Hand of Jao Tze

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A sailor steals the jewels from a huge statue of Jao Tze in a temple. He kills the old man who was guarding the temple and escapes with the loot. He eventually is chased by jewel thieves who hack off his fingers. Ultimately he finds himself returning to the temple to be its new guardian.
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In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #16 published January 1964
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Pages: 8
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The Ripper's Return

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A mad doctor at a sanatorium is somehow able to inject brain atoms from deceased historical figures into the minds of patients thus restoring these people to life in new bodies. He does this with Napoleon Bonaparte and Confucius. He then performs the experiment on his assistant turning him into Jack the Ripper, but Jack ends up murdering him.
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In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #16 published January 1964
as The Ripper's Return [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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The Man Who Bought the Earth!

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Didius Julianus; Septimius Severus (misspelled as Septimus Severus)
First Line: Strange ... but once there was a man who bought the world.
Synopsis: In 193 A.D., the Praetorian Guard auctions off the position of Roman Emperor. Didius is the highest bidder. Shortly thereafter general Septimius Severus defeats Didius, who is then executed.
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Love from a Plant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Elkin?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A lonely little horticulturist, who's been constantly bullied by his hulking wife, finds a way to give life to a vine with a special spray. He can make the vine display both love and hate. He makes the vine hate and traps his wife in the greenhouse where she is strangled to death. Alone with his vine, he uses his spray to make the plant love. The vine hugs him but hugs him so tightly it kills him.
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In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #16 published January 1964
as Love from a Plant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #4 published April 2013
as Love from a Plant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8

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