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Issue: Adventures into Terror #44 [2]
Publication Date: February 1951
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Issues: #44 [2] 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: 17 (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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Won’t You Step into My Parlor…? / The Strangers! / No Escape! / The Creeping Vine!

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Given Premiums - Cash

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First Line: Girls! Boys! Ladies! Men!
Synopsis: Ad to recruit salespeople for Cloverine Brand Salve from Wilson Chem. Co., Tyrone, Pa.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover.
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The Stranger

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A scientist invents a formula for eternal life. While he goes into town to find some rats and guinea pigs to test the formula on, his assistant back at the lab tests it on his wife and kids causing them to mutate into monsters. The assistant is horribly scarred by the mutated wife of the scientist and flees. When the scientist gets back to his lab and sees what has happened, he destroys the formula and keeps his now mutated family locked in a room in his mansion.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 7773
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What You Can Do About Hair Loss

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Comate Hair and Scalp Formula from Comate Laboratories Inc., Dept. 71-C, 1432 Broadway, New York 18, N.Y.
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The Creeping Vine

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A botanist receives a strange plant from a colleague in South America that he raises in his greenhouse. The plant gives off a horrible odour and consumes meat. Whenever it eats something, it spawns a new flower which is the same color as the food it ate. Later when the family dog goes missing, he sees that a new flower is the same spotted color as the dog. Realizing that the plant is dangerous he decides to destroy it. When he doesn't return, his wife goes to the greenhouse to check on him and sees a new flower that is the same color as her husband!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: 7739
Disclose Notes: This 1951 story is very similar to the latter 1960 film "The Little Shop of Horrors".
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No Escape

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A poor man who shares identical looks with a rich man murders his butler and acquires his job after donning a disguise in order to study the mannerisms of the wealthy man. After completing his study, he murders the wealthy man and takes his place. He finds out that the man had a history of mental imbalance after his cousin and lawyer commit him to an insane asylum.
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Job Number: 7762
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[untitled]

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First Line: They're a million miles ahead of everything!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for the new Lionel Trains with Magnetraction from Lionel Trains, P.O. Box 476, Madison Square Station, New York 10, New York.
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Out of the Past

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Mark Winter's car breaks down one night in Virginia during a storm and he enters a 19th century looking mansion for shelter. The woman and man who live there have an old quaint feel to them in terms of their dress and mannerisms. When Mark mentions he's from Boston the man tries to kill him but the woman tries to stop him and she's shot to death instead. Mark flees into the night. The next morning he sees the mansion all old and dilapidated and a local tells him a man killed his wife back during the Civil War when she tried to protect a soldier from Boston!
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #93 published August 1949
was Out of the Past [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 5645
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Shop by Mail

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First Line: You can't tell it from a real gun!
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Disclose Notes: One page of miscellaneous ads. Placed between pages 1 and 2 of text story.
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Stamps; Shop by Mail

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First Line: Mystery gold mine grab bag
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The Storm

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: People can only leave the house of terrors upon the hill when new victims seek shelter from the storm in order to replace them.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 7797
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[untitled]

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First Line: The show's on, gang!
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Disclose Notes: All-steel, illuminated television bank for $1.98 from Seagee Co., Dept. 4BN, 2 Allen Street, New York 2, N.Y.
After page 3 of "The Storm".
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The Classroom Secret

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Genres: horror
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New Silk-finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-tooled Frame

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First Line: Have you ever wished you could have your own favorite picture...
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Disclose Notes: Mail order ad for photographic enlargements from Hollywood Film Studios, 1227 Loyola Avenue, Chicago 26, Illinois.
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Blackheads "Pet Hate"

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Disclose Notes: Reprint ad for Vacutex device for removing facial blackheads. Ballco Products Company, Dept. 2810, 19 West 44th St., New York 18, New York.
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Will You Let Me Prove I Can Make You a New Man?

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First Line: Gee what a build!
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover ad from Charles Atlas, Dept. 609, 115 East 23rd Street, New York 10, New York.
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Reduce Keep Slim at Home

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Disclose Notes: Electric massager at $8.95 from Spot Reducer Co., Dept. E-132, 1025 Broad St., Newark, New Jersey.
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