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Issue: Black Cat Comics #50 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1954
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Issues: #50 of 65 Issues (68 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Black Cat MysteryView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Home Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#1-58); standard Silver Age US (#59-65)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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White Heat!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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The King Is Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Amos Banteen; Jedediah Lash; Wilkie Watts; Jesse Walker
First Line: Terror and shock mourn...
Synopsis: Amos Banteen, Jedediah Lash, and Jesse Walker want to know why lonely old Wilkie Watts has been stealing corpses from the nearby cemetery.
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In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v5 #2 published April 1973
as Ghoul's Mansion [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #2 published August 1991
as The King Is Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Artificial Sky; Saturn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science and technology
First Line: Planetarium is the name given...
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Pages: 1
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Occupation

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Tommy
First Line: Tommy was asking his mother that same question once again.
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Pages: 0.67
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Moe Gambo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Moe Gamble; Bill Whittington; Faye Whittington; Ava Riley
First Line: He was eagle-eyed...
Synopsis: Moe Gambo is the best hunter around, until he meets an exotic woman named Ava Riley who wants him for herself, and will stop at nothing to have him!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Silver Scream #1 published June 1991
as Moe Gambo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Mogambo parody
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White Heat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Walter Thorne; Sally Thorne
First Line: Walter...It's eating into me!
Synopsis: Walter Thorne needs money to help pay for his dying wife's operation and steals some uranium from the Nuclear Power Plant that he works at for some shady characters. After receiving payment of $10,000, he plans to pay for his wife's operation but she can't be saved because the doctor needed that special uranium to perform the operation!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v8 #3 published June 1974
as Shock! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 5
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And Still Champion!; It's the Most

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
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Torture!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Martin
First Line: I stood before her and taunted her...
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Pages: 0.75
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Here Today...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): H. Jonathan Aloysius Cruikshank; Hank Cordin; Rob Wallace; Will Fellows
First Line: Merrily we roll along...
Synopsis: An eccentric and very tall stranger named H. Jonathan Aloysius Cruikshank comes to town and charms the local folk. It turns out he's really a normal man in disguise that wants to get revenge on the local banker, sheriff, and general store owner for wronging him in the past.
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In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Here Today... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Story: Seems like the same story as in the short film, "The Stranger Left No Card" (1952), written by Sidney Carroll.
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