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Issue: This Magazine Is Haunted #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1952
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Issues: #5 of 14 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/07/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 248.
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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 Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Fasten your hand across your mouth to hold back the scream when you read... The Slithering Horror of Skontong Seamp!
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Pages: 1
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The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Goldie Ricon
First Line: Something moved in the leeching mud --- slimy and serpentilian!
Synopsis: The gangster Goldie Ricon escapes from death row into the Skontong swamplands. There he gets bitten by a zombie and from then on is haunted by terrible zombie encounters. Driven almost insane, Goldie returns to death row - and to Skontong swamp.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #17 published July 1974
as The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
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The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Is there someone whom you hate?
Synopsis: Country boy Hawkins comes to death in a fight with rival bully Withers. The victim's oversized shoes appear as ghostly accessoires and chase the evildoer around. He will die the same way poor Hawkins went.
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In Issue: FlagCrypt of Horror #3 published ?
In Content Item: FlagMystic #31 published January 1963
as The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNightveil's Cauldron of Horror #1 published January 1989
as The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Horror at Midnight

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (header illustration)
Inker(s): ? (header illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (header illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Doctor Homer Wiggins leafed through the list of available houses at Clem Farley's real estate establishment in Henshaw.
Synopsis: Dr. Wiggins, new in town, is called to the home of the recluse Cadden. There the devil joins the two men, demanding a soul.
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Pages: 2
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The Last Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Eddie (death); Mike (death); Joe (death); Pete (death)
First Line: They had a glimpse of something horrible -- beyond imagination -- something that stemmed from beyond the grave -- and after that, all were marked for death!
Synopsis: A small carnival pitches it's tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #31 published January 1963
as The Last Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #16 published June 1974
as The Last Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFemForce in the House of Horror #1 published January 1989
as The Last Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white; original in color
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Pages: 9
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Unknown World

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: A new comic magazine defying all description!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo ad for Unknown World (Fawcett, 1952 Series) featuring an illustration of a decaying corpse coming from behind an opening door on a pale blue background.

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