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Issue: Amazing Ghost Stories #15
Publication Date: December 1954
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Issues: #15 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
Brand: St. JohnView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Marion McDermott
Disclose Notes: Indicia states "Formerly Nightmare." Editor credit from certificate of ownership in issue 16.
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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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagPS Artbooks Softee: Amazing Ghost Stories - Monster #[nn] published July 2020
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Woman and her horse frightened by ghosts

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover does not directly represent any story in the issue and is unsigned.
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Payment in Full!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Chris; Doris; the spirit of Albert Landers; Richard Wilson
First Line: On a desolate highway...
Synopsis: A couple's car breaks down near an old mansion in New Orleans. A ghost in the house asks them to avenge his death by turning over proof of his murder to the Police, but the man gets an idea to make money off the deal.
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From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was Payment in Full [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
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The Stalking Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Derek Layne; Aunt Clara; Barber (lawyer); Johnson
First Line: Honest. Aunt Clara!
Synopsis: An underemployed actor kills his rich aunt, but finds out she only left him $400. Her cat stalks him until he is killed in a freak accident.
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From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was The Stalking Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Possible Brodsky art per Nick Caputo, July 2015.
This story is a swipe of Bram Stoker's "The Squaw".
Writer credit suggested from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
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Cagliostro -- Swindler or Superman?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Count Alexander Cagliostro; Serafina
First Line: A hundred and seventy years ago...
Synopsis: History of the Egyptian Freemasonry of High Science.
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From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was Cagliostro - Swindler or Superman? [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Out of the Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): John Godley; John Newton
First Line: Imprinted on the sands of time...
Synopsis: Odd facts from throughout history, including a man with a dream about horseraces and a man who claimed he was innocent of crime and that no grass would grow on his grave.
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Pages: 1
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Wings of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Warren Ames; Gloria Kane; Joe Arnold (bookie)
First Line: What is more harmless than a bird?
Synopsis: A hunter kills a rare snow eagle that the locals consider the king of birds. The birds in the forest swarm the killer and get revenge for their fallen king.
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From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was Wings of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
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Graveyard Guffaws

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Don't lie to me!
Synopsis: 3 one-panel gags, including "Thank goodness! It's you, not my wife!"
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From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was Graveyard Guffaws [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Spirit Spasms

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: He's the black sheep of my family!
Synopsis: 3 one-panel gags including "He's the black sheep of my family!".
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From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was Spirit Spasms [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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All the King's Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Jim Wolfe; King Henri Christophe I; Dan McGraw
First Line: A killer wanted in the States...
Synopsis: Jim Wolfe learns that in Haiti, soldiers will obey even after they are dead.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #8 published December 2013
as All the King's Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagWeird Thrillers #5 published October 1952
was All the King's Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Duffy lettering per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Ben Oda.
Writer credit from textual analysis by Lou Mougin.

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