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Issue: Terror Illustrated #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2006
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Gemstone Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 182
ISBN: 1888472219
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Price: none entered
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Content Items: 29 (15 stories, 2 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Part of the Complete EC Library.
Contains all three issues of the EC Picto-Fiction line title Terror Illustrated.
Distributed in a four-volume slipcase along with the hardcover collections Shock Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, and Confessions Illustrated.
Slipcase title: Shock Illustrated • Terror Illustrated • Crime Illustrated • Confessions Illustrated
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior with some color
Dimensions: 9.25 " x 12.25 "
Paper Stock: thick glossy cardboard cover; glossy interior cover reprints and bond interior story pages
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: Art and color credits from Roger Hill in this issue.
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Genres: horror
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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: Marie Severin's recolored version (2006) of the cover to Terror Illustrated #1.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: In September of 1955, Adult Tales of Terror Illustrated...
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Disclose Notes: Article giving the background for Terror Illustrated.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Terror Illustrated
First Line: "Adult Tales of TERROR Illustrated" is the third in a new series of magazines...
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Disclose Notes: Includes editorial (signed "The Editors") explaining the concept of the magazine.
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The Sucker

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Genres: horror
First Line: You run.
Synopsis: A drifter is "turned" by a vampire, but doesn't understand this strange new condition and powerful urges, so he attempts to track the woman down. He continually feels that he has found her at last only to realize his mistake when he has slaked his blood thirst upon his latest victim. Eventually the citizens discover his hiding place and pound a stake through his heart and he dies without ever fully comprehending what has happened to him.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Cover story. Text story with B&W illustrations (some color-tinted). Adapted from "So They Finally Pinned You Down!" in HAUNT OF FEAR #6.
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Sure-Fire Scheme

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Genres: horror
First Line: Tim Haley lay on the bunk of his cage-like cell in the prison's Death Row.
Synopsis: A man awaiting execution fakes his own death by pretending to be dead. He had told his girlfriend earlier to come claim his body at a certain time after his "death" so he can be revived. Problem is, she comes 12 hours too late and his body had been cremated.
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Disclose Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations (one tinted green).
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Rest in Peace

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Genres: horror
First Line: Thursday: I feel impelled to write.
Synopsis: A man and his wife are near death. After the wife dies, he had her buried in the family crypt but was supposed to free her after she rings a special bell he had rigged to her coffin when she was ready to return to life. He fails to do so and she dies again in her coffin.
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Story closely resembles another Oleck-authored story, "Buried Alive", from BLACK MAGIC #28.
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The Basket

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Genres: horror
First Line: The man was whistling softly as he trudged along.
Synopsis: A man born with two heads carries a basket around on his shoulder to prevent others from knowing of his condition. One of the heads is homicidal and when it begins to seize control, the good head opts for suicide.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations (some color-tinted). Adapted from the original story in HAUNT OF FEAR #7
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The Gorilla's Paw

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Genres: horror
First Line: Floyd stood outside the curio shop window...
Synopsis: Uneasily eyeing objects in a curio shops' window, Floyd is summoned inside by the owner and induced to buy a mummified gorilla's paw for $25. He tosses it on his nightstand and goes to bed, but in the morning, the paw is covered with $25. The next day, the paw disappears, then reappears with blood all over it and one of his friends dead. Floyd soon learns that the paw will grant his wishes, with devastating results!
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Disclose Notes: Text story with B&W illustrations (some color-tinted). Adapted from the original story in HAUNT OF FEAR #9. Writer Al Feldstein uses the pseudonym Alfred E. Neuman, which is the name of the mascot character of EC's MAD Magazine, which had relaunched only a few months earlier.
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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: Marie Severin's recolored version (2006) of the cover to Terror Illustrated #2.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: In his article in Hoohah! 4...
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Disclose Notes: Article about "plagarisms" in the Picto-Fiction mags
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Horror in the Freak Tent

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Genres: horror
First Line: My name is Henry Hastings.
Synopsis: Enraged, a freak show owner blinds the carnival's knife thrower with red-hot pokers. The other freaks get revenge by gagging the owner, strapping him to the board and guiding the thrower's tosses with their comments.
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Disclose Notes: adapted from original story in Haunt of Fear (EC, 1950 series) #5
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Requiem

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Genres: horror
First Line: Mr. Jeremy was quite spent.
Synopsis: Two grave robbers steal the jewels of corpses.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Mother Love

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Genres: horror
First Line: Just ahead, at the end of the dimly lit corridor...
Synopsis: A horribly abused pregnant woman is institutionalized by her cruel husband and escapes with her baby, a deformed fetus in a jar.
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Head Man

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Genres: horror
First Line: Bruce had been playing with his treasures in the attic.
Synopsis: Someone is decapitating little boys in a small town. It turns out to be the lonely son of the powerful mill owner who wants friends to play with.
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Reflection of Death

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Genres: horror
First Line: Ahead of you, the endless white line that divides the highway...
Synopsis: Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash. Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. A similar reaction comes from a hobo and a woman, whose car he takes to his home, which has been foreclosed upon. Then he walks to his friend's house, but sees Carl without eyes and blind. Al walks to a mirror and sees his rotten and decomposed face, then is awakened...it has been a dream. Then car lights appear and there is a crash....for real!
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Disclose Notes: adapted from original story in TALES FROM THE CRYPT #23
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Disclose Notes: This cover was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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First Line: The EC Picto-Fiction magazines were published...
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Disclose Notes: Discussion of the text-heavy approach to Picto-Fiction.
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In this issue

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Disclose Notes: Credits, table of contents, indicia and a panel excerpt from an interior story.

This page was prepared for the third issue of Confessions Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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Halloween

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Genres: horror
First Line: When I think about Briarwood Orphan Asylum...
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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Keepsake

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Genres: horror
First Line: Ah, me.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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The Mother

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Genres: horror
First Line: It had begun to rain...
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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Letters to the editor

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Don Planas, Irving Glassman, Mrs. Andy Hainer, F.G., Jerry McHone, Jack Promo, Katherine H. Richards, Mrs. Rita Gingrich & all, Ralph Peterson, Shirley Berkowitz, Anonymous, Stan Franklin.

This page was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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Kid Stuff

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Genres: horror
First Line: The children found the coffin...
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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The Long Wait

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Genres: horror
First Line: The tropic night hung over the island...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the third issue of Terror Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: back cover.

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