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Issue: The Tormented #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1954
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagSterling
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Sterling Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Elliot Caplin
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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FlagPS Artbooks Softee: Classic Horror Comics #1 published May 2022
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Synopsis: Two skeletons drag a woman into a grave in a cemetery at night.
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Caterpillar House

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man is invited to a party by an old colleague (an entomologist) who lives in a mansion out in a remote area. He notices all the guests at the mansion move like they don't have bones. It turns out they are giant caterpillars in human disguises.
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True Enigmas of the Tormented

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Prince Josef of Poland (1763-1813) drowns via a gypsies magpie curse.
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The Girl Who Wasn't There

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Angry she lost a part in a play to another woman, a witch causes the actress to simply vanish from existence. No one but her roommate has any recollection of her ever existing including her own parents. When the roommate does some investigating, she vanishes from existence too!
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The Dream

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man has a reoccurring dream of a stranger trying to kill him. He crosses paths with the stranger on a bus and finds out that he was having the same dream of being killed by him!
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The Bird Sanctuary

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Synopsis: A jewel thief and his moll flee from the authorities through the woods. They come across a hidden part of the woods known as the bird sanctuary which is ruled by a mysterious woman. The woman offers them sanctuary in her cabin. When the thief sees her transform into a giant bird, he shoots her. The other birds in the woods come after him for revenge.
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Dinner For One

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Synopsis: A husband and wife go on a hunting trip along with their friend in a lonely patch of woods. They encounter a lonely old man who's not at all what he seems...
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