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Issue: Haunt of Fear #28
Publication Date: November 1954
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Issues: #28 of 28 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. 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: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1991 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In Memoriam

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: You may never read this magazine.
Synopsis: Notice of cancellation of New Trend titles.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as In Memoriam [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Prude

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Warren Forbisher (Northton citizen, self-appointed guardian of public morals, death); George Kraus (member of the City Council); Mr. Gould (publisher of the Northton Times); Mr. Wallman (President of the Wallman Bank); Mr. Brock (of the Brockman Shipping Company); Seth Hoskins (gravedigger); Laura Adams (Warren's lover, death); Henrietta Forbisher (Warren's wife)
First Line: Hee, hee! So, why am I cackling?
Synopsis: A man in an adulterous relationship deals with the guilt of his mistresses' suicide by campaigning against all forms of public affection until he finally has a law passed requiring separate cemeteries for men and women. The good women will not stand for this however, and they unbury themselves during the night to rebury themselves next to their mates. At first he doesn't believe the gravedigger when he relates what is happening so he stays in the cemetery at night and observes them rise. His former mistress drags him back into her grave.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4 [1988] published January 1988
as Dydsmønsteret [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as The Prude [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Ingels put "farewell" next to his signature on the splash panel.
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Numbskull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); vindictive hunter (villain, death)
First Line: Heh, heh! Hi, hidiots!
Synopsis: This story is told by the skull of a sadistic animal trapper in Africa who traps animals only in order to inflict pain on them before he kills them, all to seek revenge for a cheating business partner, cheating wife, his brother and his father. One day he falls victim to one of his own pit traps and as various sorts of animals gather round, the ants strip his flesh clean.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1992 published January 1992
as Kjøtthue! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as Numbskull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Vault Keeper art credit by Craig Delich.
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A Collector's E.C. Check-List

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Due to frequent requests from avid collectors of E.C. type literature...
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as A Collector's E.C. Check-List [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: List of Titles, issues numbers and dates of New Trend crime and horror titles.
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Audition

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Here's an offbeat opus sure to drive you notes!
Synopsis: One girl so desperately wants to be in Phil Vitale's all-girl orchestra that she is willing to kill herself so he gives her a lethal injection that makes her into a zombie. She assumes that they are all zombies and she doesn't care because she still wants to be in the band, and in a way, she gets her wish as they turn out to be Phil Vitale's all-ghoul orchestra.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as Audition [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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500 Teeth

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The window slid open easily...
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as 500 Teeth [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Work of Art!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
First Line: Heh, heh! And now it's time for your Crypt-Keeper...
Synopsis: A man is so unsatisfied with the commercial attitudes of his fellow morticians, including that of the son-in-law he fruitlessly tried to impart a sense of art, that he builds his own robot mortician to euthanize him and do a job he himself would be proud of.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1991 published January 1991
as Et kunstverk [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #28 published August 1999
as A Work of Art! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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