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Issue: Tales of Horror #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1952
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Issues: #3 of 13 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: A Minoan MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Minoan Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 07/28/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 242.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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The Devil's Clock!

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Pages: 1
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The Big Snake!

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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Big Snake
Character(s): John Reid (member of the Scientific Research League); Paul Vale (villain, scientist)
Synopsis: A scientist has created a serum when, mixed with blood and injected into a creature, allows that creature to grow as long as the scientist wishes, but also allows the injected animal to take on the characteristics of the animal from which the blood was taken. After a huge snake swallows the scientist, it grows into an even bigger giant guided by human intelligence that attacks New York City.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #8 published December 1953
as The Big Snake! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird v9 #1 published January 1975
as Coils of Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This story is promoted on the top of the cover.

The scientist also creates a giant rat and a giant rabbit that need to be destroyed by representatives of the Scientific Research League because of the danger associated with the serum.

The giant snake climbs up the Empire State Building like King Kong.
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The Devil's Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Don Simmons; Betty Stevens; Jorak
Synopsis: A betrothed couple purchases a strange antique clock. When the husband winds the clock backwards, he's sent thousands of years into the past and encounters a cult of demonic pagans who try to force him to sacrifice his wife in the present day, so time can loop with his sacrifice into the past thus allowing them to enter the modern world.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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The Toy Army

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A toy maker orders a special doll from Egypt wrapped in bandages. After he unwraps it, it turns out to be Im-Ho-Tep, an Egyptian high priest who was shrunk down into doll form and mummified as punishment for his evil. Im-Ho-Tep possesses the toy maker's toy soldiers and plans on using them to conquer the world, until the toymaker defeats him by wrapping him in bandages again.
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Pages: 6
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Trespasser from Beyond

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: The ghost of an actress who committed suicide during filming of a movie, haunts the set of the film's remake. It turns out the actress in the remake had murdered her and her ghost came looking for revenge.
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, western
First Line: Boo! It's getting real dark, Pete.
Synopsis: Prospector Pete and his friend are running late going home. Pete's friend suggests they go through a nearby ghost town for a shortcut, but Pete is afraid of ghosts and opts to go the long way home not realizing the path is full of scary wild animals.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #11 published June 1954
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Humor strip.

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