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Issue: Adventures into Terror #8
Publication Date: February 1952
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Issues: #8 of 31 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Current Detective Stories 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: 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
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Enter…the Lizard!/You Can Only Die Once!/The Parasite!/The Creatures Who Laugh!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Goldberg states himself as colorist.
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Enter…the Lizard

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man discovers a type of werelizard that reproduces its kind by injecting humans with a poison in its bite that transforms their bodies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #9 [unnamed variant] published April 1975
as Enter...The Lizard [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 9399
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The Nesterfield Horror

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man inherits a castle from a dying distant relative who happens to be a duke. He's then killed by a ghost that has been haunting the castle for centuries.
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #10 published July 1953
as The Ghost of Nesterfield Hall [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 9387
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The Parasite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A prisoner named Harry notices his cellmate Monk has a grotesque head growing out of his chest. The head convinces him to kill Monk. After this is done the head now grows out of Harry's chest. For you see this head is a parasite from Mars that needs human hosts to live.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 9437
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You Can Only Die Once

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man tries to kill himself over and over again but only succeeds in producing pain and mutilation, not the longed for oblivion. A friend of his informs him that he is already dead, for he committed suicide a year ago, and has been sent to Hell where all suicides reside.
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In Content Item: FlagBeware #5 published November 1973
as You Can Only Die Once! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #62 published October 1976
as L'on ne peut mourir qu'une fois! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitan America #97 published December 1976
as Si muore una volta sola! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 9411
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The Miracle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A criminal in a bar at night sees a stranger doing wondrous things and so he pulls a gun and demands to know how they are done. The stranger says that if he wants these powers all he needs to do is agree to exchange places with him. He does so and commits various crimes with his new powers, but once the morning begins to arrive, he feels drawn to a cemetery and realizes that he has exchanged places with a ghost.
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In Content Item: FlagDracula Lives #1 published May 1973
as Ghost of a Chance! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled from "The Miracle"
Reprint Notes: The reprint title is "Ghost of a Chance!"
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9338
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The Ones Who Laugh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A teacher notices that everyone laughs at him wherever he goes. It gets to the point where he is on the verge of madness. When talking to the school's dean, he finds out that the dean is an alien from a race of shape shifting humanoid bug-like creatures that have invaded the Earth. These aliens go from planet to planet consuming all living creatures. They have eaten every human on Earth except for the teacher. They had injected him with a duplicating serum so that he will mass produce more humans for them to eat. The teacher kills himself before this can happen.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 9448

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