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Issue: Spellbound #14
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #14 of 34 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Animirth Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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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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Love Story!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Love Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: The wife of an African guide plots with a doctor to murder her husband.
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In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #12 published January 1975
as Love Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: C-17
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The Whirlpool of Gairloch

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): John Potts; McPherson; Capt. Breslow
Synopsis: A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #74 published April 1960
as The Whirlpool of Gairloch [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: C-127
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The Saddest Story Ever Told!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski [as Ed Win] (siogned)
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski [as Ed Win] (siogned)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): An unnamed research scientist; Martha (his wife); Donald (his son); an unnamed police officer
Synopsis: A scientist discovers a cure for baldness which he claims will "grow hair on a billiard ball". When the men who try the formula remain bald, the scientist loses everything and ends up sleeping rough in a park. Telling his story to a policeman, the scientist claims that the cure DOES work, but not on men. To prove it, he produces a handful of billiard balls - all covered in hair!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: B-942
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The Revolt of Wilbur Bixby!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos ?
Inker(s): Carl Burgos ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Wilbur Bixby (a henpecked husband); his wife Griselda
Synopsis: A man becomes free of his shrew wife when they travel to Greece and he drinks from a fountain that transforms him into a centaur so he can eat grass and no longer has to depend upon her favor to buy him meals.
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In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #34 published March 1975
as The Revolt of Wilbur Bixby! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: C-14
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The Heat's On!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Inker(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rock Zucco; Gertie Zucco; Crawford; Sam; other members of the crew on the ship Zucco serves on
Synopsis: A succubus uses a mirror to blind a sea captain on leave as he attempts to push his homely wife out the top story window so that he tumbles out instead and winds up in Hell stoking the flames the way he used to torture his men.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #13 published September 1974
as The Heat's On [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: C-1
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Close Shave!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida [as Kida] (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Kida [as Kida] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Crawfish Cobbs; his wife Matilda
Synopsis: A shrew wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #12 published August 1974
as Close Shave! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-989

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