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Issue: Nightmare #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1952
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagZiff-Davis
Indicia Publisher: Approved Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/28/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 174.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Allen Anderson (painting)
Allen Anderson (painting)
Allen Anderson (painting)
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Subject Matter
horror, occult
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Cover art credit authenticated by article in ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE No. 18 Winter 2007.
The Burgess all-purpose electric sprayer

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Page includes indicia.
Printed on inside front cover.
The Blood Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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George Tuska
George Tuska
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Subject Matter
horror, occult
The ship the Gloris Dune is christened but at the launch runs over a drunken sailor who curses it at the loss of his hand. Embittered, he signs aboard the whaler and burns her down. Hoping as the only survivor no one will know, he books passage aboard a mysterious whaler and learns it's the ghost ship, with dire consequences for him!
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George Tuska not credited in issue.
The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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George Tuska
George Tuska
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Subject Matter
horror, occult
Tom hates his brother Jeff. They both get caught in a terrible snow storm and find shelter in a log cabin with no food. In desperation they hunt in the storm and Tom trips, accidentally shooting his disbelieving brother. He buries him in the snow outside the cabin only to have him appear in the cabin the following 2 mornings. Found screaming, Tom is locked up in a hospital and ends his life digging up his brother to prove to him he didn't kill him.
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George Tuska not credited in issue.
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Ad for Ziff-Davis Comics Group titles: Flyboy, The Hawk, Spacebusters, Speed Smith, Eerie Mysteries, Beanbags, Explorer Joe, Wild Boy, Crime Clinic, Crusader from Mars, Weird Thrillers, Kid Cowboy, Sparkie, Ellery Queen, and GI Joe. Mock covers with just logos and one line identifying description.
Jardini's Jaw

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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The Fatal Note!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Syd Shores
Syd Shores
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Ben Oda
Subject Matter
horror, occult
Walter Gregory; Eve Taylor; Morta, Keeper of the Lighthouse of Death; Lillian Darrow
Walt and Eve are shipwrecked in a storm. Walt holds onto a spar to keep afloat and Eve drowns, screaming for help, as Walt claims the spar cannot hold them both. Walt meets Morta, who tells Walt he will die in a year unless he tells someone how he let Eve drown. Walt is rescued and gradually falls in love with Eve's best friend but is haunted by images of Eve's face as she was drowning. He tells no one and a year to the date of her drowning, he flies to Paris and his flight goes down in the ocean, whereupon he jumps in to be with Eve.
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The Tunnel of Horror

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Subject Matter
horror, occult
Two bums are scouring the beach and discover a valuable ring, which leads one to kill the other. He then tries to persuade a former fairground colleague to allow him to rejoin the partnership as he now has money. Refusing, the colleague sees that the bum has indeed got money and is setting himself up in competition, and sends the Police round to frighten him. The bum rushes into the Tunnel of Horror to 'see' his murdered victim and dies in the tunnel.
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Vision of the Gods

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
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Subject Matter
horror, occult
Two photographers film temples in Ceylon and suddenly see a dancing beauty. On return they find everything fine except she does not appear on their film.
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FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Vision of the Gods [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Flash! Special Sale! This Month Only!

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Ad for Casa de Joyas, New York - selling watches, rings and pendants.
The Chevalier Health Supporter Belt

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Subject Matter
Lifts and flattens your bulging "bay window".
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Ad for Ronnie Sales Inc, New York. On inside back cover.
Charles Atlas

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Ad for Charles Atlas. On back cover.

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