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Issue: The Thing #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1952
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Issues: #1 of 17 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Songhits Comics PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Song Hits, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/06/1952
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): Alfred V. Fago
Disclose Notes: Indexer copy has Feb 6 1952 stamp.
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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
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Weird Tales of Fantasy and Horror!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Albert Tyler (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Thing
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Pages: 1
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The Thing! Presents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Albert Tyler (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Black and white art located on inside front cover.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Unlike every other sequence, this reads Forgione + Tyler, suggesting a possible reversal of roles for the art here.
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The Creature From Dimension 2-K-31

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Albert Tyler (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Eustus Riko (physicist); Zuzo and Katu (alien scientists)
Synopsis: Soldiers fight an otherworldly shape-shifting alien creature during the Korean War.
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Pages: 9
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Grunwald

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Albert Tyler (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Curran; Hans Kruger; Arturo
Synopsis: Three men fight to maintain their sanity when they are trapped in a lighthouse and besieged by thousands of hungry, murderous rats.
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Pages: 7
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Nightmare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Albert Tyler (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hiram Crane
Synopsis: A serial killer randomly decapitates his victims.
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Pages: 7
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The Thing!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A vampiric wraith called "The Thing" curses the last of the Scotsworths by turning him into an ageless zombie.
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Hellfire of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Albert Tyler (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Louis Mann (reporter); Detective Dick Trails
Synopsis: A killer blackmails a city by causing people to spontaneously combust.
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Pages: 7
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Buy the New Hot Rods and Racing Cars Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
Feature(s): Hot Rods and Racing Cars
Synopsis: Inside back cover ad with promo for Hot Rods and Racing Cars.
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