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Issue: Strange Fantasy #2 [1] Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1952
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFarrell
Indicia Publisher: Farrell Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ruth Roche
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (Iger Shop)
? (Iger Shop)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Strange Fantasy #2 [1] Cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Ghoul and the Guest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger shop)
? (Iger Shop)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
A starving tramp begs for food at a farm house. When the woman of the house commands him to chop wood and fill the bin first, the man dies from the strain. He returns at night as a wood chopping zombie fulfilling his task. As he enters the home for his meal, the woman dies of shock.
Reprinting
FlagWeird v2 #8 published July 1968
as The Ghoul and the Guest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWitches Tales v2 #2 published April 1970
as The Ghoul and the Guest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTerror Tales v3 #3 published May 1971
as The Zombi's Bride [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTales from the Tomb v3 #3 published June 1971
as The Ghoul and the Guest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagHorror Tales v5 #1 published February 1973
as The Ghoul and the Guest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
Death Claws

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger shop)
? (Iger Shop)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Emmet Blake; Inspector Blake (Emmet's father); Sally; Mrs. Throckmorton; Mr. Throckmorton; Frank Bridges; Leona
Investigator Emmet Blake is bothered with a murder during his vacation. Who killed old Mr. Throckmorton and what does the raven with the bloody feet have to do with it? Meanwhile, Sally wonders why Emmet won't kiss her once in a while.
Reprinting
FlagTerror Tales v1 #8 published May 1969
as Death Claws [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTerror Tales v3 #1 published January 1971
as Death Claws [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
9
Nightmare Message!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Two men scout the Brazilian jungle for oil. They have to fight off snakes and cannibal natives.
Reprinting
FlagApache Trail #2 published November 1957
as Nightmare Message! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Captain Who Wouldn't Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger shop)
? (Iger Shop)
?
?
Subject Matter
occult
The captain of a sailing ship gets drowned by the ghost of a rival captain. When the ghost threatens to steer the ship on rocks, supernatural investigator Zero uses his "ghost-melting disintegrator" to render him powerless.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Primitive Peril!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (Iger shop)
? (Iger Shop)
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Two men make a crash landing in the jungle and are brought before a sun goddess. She declares them to be sacrificed to the sun god. The men, however, know about a total eclipse of the sun happening the next day. Using that knowledge, they claim to be the sun god's messengers and go free.
Reprinting
FlagWeird v3 #4 published September 1969
as Primitive Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
 
Miscellaneous
8
This story may have been reprinted in Voodoo Annual (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 Series) #1 and as "Primitive Horror" in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 Series) #v3#4 (September 1969).

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