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Issue: Worlds of Fear #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #8 of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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The Phantom Gloves!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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....?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Mona Harris welcomes her fiancé back from a jungle expedition. But strange things have happened to Paul Fowler since he survived a plane crash in the wilderness and was nurtured back to health by living protoplasm.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The story title is NOT unknown, in this case "....?" is the story title.
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The Phantom Gloves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Jack Lonergan; Hex Morgan
First Line: The time is the present, the scene isn't too clear as it is obscured by the sullen shadows of the night ---
Synopsis: Out of sheer boredom sports reporter Jack Lonergan declares himself a warlock and bewitches a pair of boxing gloves, turning them into match-winning killing tools. And so it happens – to the reporter’s own surprise!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: McCarty can be spotted by his faces with big eyes, heavy lower lips with perpendicular lines, and as if most of the head is just one big face. He has many credited stories in Prize's "Black Magic" comics.
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The Rivals

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: At a travelling circus two puppeteers rival for their audiences. Jepetto's puppets and the puppet-master himself share a dark secret.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: small illustration
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The Curse of Manu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: In robbing old captain Hawkins, the gangsters Slim and Hanks attract a curse.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #13 published February 1974
as The Curse of Manu [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10

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