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Issue: Haunt of Fear #26
Publication Date: July 1954
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Issues: #26 of 28 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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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]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels
Inker(s): Graham Ingels
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #26 published February 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Are You a Red Dupe?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lyle Stuart; Bill Gaines
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, opinion
Character(s): Melvin Blizunken
Synopsis: This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Tongue in cheek editorial parody in an attempt to link efforts to destroy comics to Communists.

Writer credits from Lyle Stuart himself, during an interview by Bill Spicer in Squa Tront (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) #12 (2007); and from Grant Geissman's book, Tales of Terror!: The EC Companion (Fantagraphics, 2000 series), who lists the writer as Bill Gaines; as well as Frank Jacobs' The MAD World of William M. Gaines (Carol Publishing Group, 1973 series) notes that Gaines worked with Stuart on the piece. Original indexer credited Albert B. Feldstein.
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Marriage Vow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Martin Saunders; Eva Saunders (Martin's wife, death, returns from the grave)
Synopsis: A woman who was murdered by her husband for her money comes back from the dead to fulfill her wifely role in a zombified way. He begs her to return to the grave and says he is sorry but she refuses saying "....till death do us part. That means both of us die! Not just one!" while calling him to bed.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1989 published January 1989
as Ekteskapsløftet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #26 published February 1999
as Marriage Vow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Shadow Knows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A man murders his own wife in order to marry a wealthy woman. As he leaves her grave site in the evening he notices he has picked up an unwanted companion, his dead wife's shadow. At first the shadow ruins his relationship with the wealthy woman, then strangles her while framing her husband by appearing to a policeman around a corner to be a victim's shadow being strangled by the husband's shadow. The husband tells the truth on the stand but the jury doesn't believe him and he is executed and buried next to his dead wife. Only then does her shadow return to the grave and rest.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1990 published January 1990
as Skyggefull fortid [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #26 published February 1999
as The Shadow Knows [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Hot Head

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Old Witch's Niche
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Pages: 1
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Spoiled

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen
Inker(s): Jack Kamen
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis: The wife of a brilliant surgeon and her lover have cause to regret their affair when the doctor cuts off their heads and places the woman's head on the man's body and the man's head on the woman's body.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1989 published January 1989
as Avskåret fra å elske [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #26 published February 1999
as Spoiled [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Comes The Dawn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A man who has barricaded himself in an unprovisioned Arctic cabin with a vampire outside feels he's safe since he can leave once the sun comes up until he remembers that the Arctic nights can be very long...
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Lang natts ferd ... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #26 published February 1999
as Comes the Dawn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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