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Issue: Adventures into Terror #4
Publication Date: June 1951
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Issues: #4 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Current Detective Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Brain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A warped Nazi scientist, sentenced to death, has an assistant dig up his body, remove his head and keep it alive in his laboratory. He makes plans for world domination.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #11 published July 1974
as The Brain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCurse of the Weird #1 published December 1993
as The Brain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 8168
Disclose Notes: Follow-up story in Adventures into Terror #6.
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Hands of Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A young woman fears that her late sister has come back from the grave to kill her, as she can feel an invisible grip on her throat choking her. Her psychiatrist thinks it's all in her head until he looks at X-rays of her and sees a skeleton hand gripping her throat.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #11 published July 1974
as The Hands of Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 8216
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Vampire Ship

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An able-bodied seaman boards the S.S Lorelei only to find it's infested with a crew of vampires. Barely escaping the ship with his life, he tells the authorities. They tell him no such ship exists and the pier it was supposedly docked at was destroyed in a fire months ago.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #5 published June 1951
was Mantrap! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Vampire Ship"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 8223
Disclose Notes: spot illustration of the vampire
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The Torture Room

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Siegfried Mauller (Nazi commandant of concentration camp)
Synopsis: The Nazi commander of a concentration camp is captured by the prisoners and placed in their secret torture room.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #11 published July 1974
as Torture Room [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: 8165
Disclose Notes: Cover story. Although the story is completely different than as depicted in the cover art.
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Vampire Brats

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A nurse gets a job at an infants' home where all the babies seem just a little different. She finds out that they are baby vampires. After one attacks her, she flees and tries to get help only to be told the home she was working at is run down and abandoned. Thinking she dreamed the whole thing, she takes a job as a babysitter and finds out that the little girl she is babysitting is a vampire!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #11 published July 1974
as Vampire Brats [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 8190
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The Thing in the Water

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A fish enthusiast encounters a menacing "water monster" from Atlantis when he brings home a new breed of guppies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #12 published September 1974
as The Thing in the Water [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 7881
Disclose Notes: The monster explains that Atlanteans mutated from humans to water creatures when their continent sank beneath the sea.

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