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Issue: The Purple Claw #3
Publication Date: May 1953
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Issues: #3 of 3 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: 01/06/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 127.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Giant from the Tomb

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPurple Claw #8 published January 1958
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Giant From the Tomb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Horak (villain, death); Golga (villain, death); Marla; Karl
First Line: Shot down over Africa during the war, young Dr. Jonathan Weir saved a tribe of natives from a horrible plague.
Synopsis: In a small city-state in central Europe, Dr. Weir has to contend with the evil dictator Horak and the undead giant Golga.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #11 published June 1954
as The Giant from the Tomb [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEerie Tales #11 published January 1963
as The Giant from the Tomb [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Death Flower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Sam Barney; "Trigger" Martex; Walter Parker; Marge Parker
First Line: When the sun goes down in the steaming Florida Everglades, strange things begin to happen.
Synopsis: The Purple Claw encounters a creepy old man that turns into a huge "Death Flower" at night that lives in the Florida swamps and feasts on human flesh.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #11 published June 1954
as Death Flower [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEerie Tales #11 published January 1963
as Death Flower [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sparks of Life
First Line: Favorite Day-Dreams - to sleep once more in the old tin-roofed bedroom during a storm.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #11 published June 1954
as [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEerie Tales #11 published January 1963
as [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 6 single panel cartoons: "Favorite Day-Dreams," "Folks We Have Envied," et al.
Reprinted from newspaper comics.
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The Final Horror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bill Bartel
First Line: The Purple Claw will save you, Bill!
Synopsis: Alcoholic scientist Bill Bartel enters a horrible dream world every night. Dr. Weir uses the Purple Claw to enter that dream world. He gets Bartel to fight the final horror - an incarnation of the evil side of Bartel.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #11 published June 1954
as The Final Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEerie Tales #11 published January 1963
as The Final Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #6 published January 1992
as The Final Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #40 published April 2003
as The Final Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black and white reprint.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The next non-reprint appearance was in AC's FemForce: Out of the Asylum (1987 series) #1.
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Just What the Doctor Ordered

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: His face was white as the sheet he lay on, but in his neck and forehead the veins stood out taut and purple.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #11 published June 1954
as Just What the Doctor Ordered [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEerie Tales #11 published January 1963
as Just What the Doctor Ordered [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2

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