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Issue: The Thing #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1952
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Issues: #5 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: An Outstanding Comics PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Capitol Stories, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred V. Fago
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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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The Thing

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Morales (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Morales
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Thing Presents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Lou Morales (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Morales
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page
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Curse of Karnak

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Professor Ambrose carelessly revives the mummy of King Mentu and sets free a plague of Egyptian gods running amok in the excavation camp.
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In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #17 published July 1974
as Curse of Karnak [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Harmony of Horror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Jim Shervin kills Bruno Augustin, the rival for his love of the beautiful Cleo. The pianist's ghost comes back from the dead and haunts his murderer by moving objects around via acoustical vibrations.
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Pages: 6
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The Frustrated Ghost

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Captain Isaac Humboldt dies in a steamship crash on the Mississippi. His ghostly apparition appears many miles away to his mother and his brother.
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Pages: 2
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Murderers' Row

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tex Blaisdell
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Strange things happen in and around Professor Caglio's wax exhibition of murderers through history. Can Elsa and boyfriend Terry escape when trapped in the storage room?
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In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #12 published August 2014
as Murderers' Row [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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The Tavern of Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Collier (signed)
Inker(s): Collier
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Young man spends the night in an inn haunted by an old female vampire. The fiend appears and warns him to stay, but the man won't listen and has to pay for his stubbornness with his life.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Morales (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Morales
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, informational
Feature(s): Things You Should Know
First Line: The Banshee, strange family ghost...
Synopsis: Three panels informing about the habits of banshees.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: 1/2 page inside back cover with ad for pimple cream
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for bargains from U. S. Diamond House on back cover.
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Pages: 1

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