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Issue: Adventures into Terror #43 [1]
Publication Date: November 1950
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Issues: #43 [1] of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Current Detective Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: 1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Thing in the Cave!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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In Content Item: FlagAdventures into Terror #43 [1] published December 1950
as The Thing in the Cave [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Monster Awakes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: After being shot down by a Japanese fighter pilot over China during World War 2, an American pilot enters a cave and finds himself in a strange mysterious crypt. He opens a huge vault door which awakens a giant that has been trapped there for eons. The giant plans on destroying humanity, until the pilot tricks him to go back to sleep in the vault.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 7310
Disclose Notes: Cover story. Although a woman doesn't appear in the story.
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The Unknown Partner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Titus was an unscrupulous businessman who had no qualms destroying people's lives in his relentless pursuit of money. He even drove his own brother to suicide over money owed him. One day a smooth talking man offers Titus a business deal to come work for him. Titus agrees and suddenly drops dead of a heart attack. The man is revealed as Satan who is looking for souls to work for him in Hell.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: 7553
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The Tourist

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An old man who was a former sheriff in a small town meets up with an oldtimer tourist whose life he had saved back in the day when he was known as Kid Monte.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: SL-3836
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The Ant World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A husband and wife buy an old mansion said to have been the residence of a mysterious man named Hoog who performed strange experiments before suddenly disappearing. At night the couple hear strange noises coming from the cellar. The husband discovers giant intelligent ants (who were once human) living in the walls who capture him and his wife. The mansion is ultimately destroyed and the husband is the sole survivor, but in the hospital he begins to turn into a giant ant.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 7644
Disclose Notes: Rule inks, possibly aided by George Klein, per Nick Caputo, January 2020. Previous indexer credited Sekowsky.
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The Man Who Looked at Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Oren Van Schoon goes to India to learn about all the mysterious and forbidden tricks that Fakirs and magicians perform. He treats the locals like animals constantly whipping and abusing them to get what he wants. Before he returns to America, a slave reveals his ability to travel to the future and hands him a newspaper from the next month. Oren kills the slave and reads the paper only to find out he will be hung for committing murder!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: 7309

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