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Issue: Ripley's Believe It or Not! #12
Publication Date: February 1969
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1968
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1969 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; later standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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The Strangler Oak

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
drama, horror, occult
Reprinting
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! #80 published August 1978
as The Fingers of Death! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories #R1377 published January 1983
as The Strangler Oak [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Strangling Oak

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Reprinting
FlagMystery Comics Digest #10 published March 1973
as The Strangling Oak [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! #80 published August 1978
as The Strangling Oak [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories #R1377 published January 1983
as The Strangling Oak [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGespenster Geschichten #12 published ?
as Die Würgeeiche [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
9
The Spectres of Goodwin Sands

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Reprinting
FlagMystery Comics Digest #7 published September 1972
as The Spectres of Goodwin Sands [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Death's Spectral Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Reprinting
FlagMystery Comics Digest #13 [Gold Key] published September 1973
as Death's Spectral Hand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories #R1377 published January 1983
as Death's Spectral Hand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGespenster Geschichten #84 published ?
as Die Mörderhand des Gezeichneten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Club News

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Gold Key Club Comics
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Promo page for new comics including the first issue of Dark Shadows. Includes cover repro of Walt Disney Comics Digest and image of Barnabas Collins.
Reader's Page Doodles

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
various
various
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Gold Key Club Comics
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Fan art from: Darcy Nelson, Mary Elizabeth James, Susan Mansfield, Patty Sperle and Sony Dresser.
Jokes on You

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Gold Key Club Comics
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Jokes sent in by readers.
The Ghostly Horseman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Reprinting
FlagMystery Comics Digest #7 published September 1972
as The Ghostly Horseman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories #R1377 published January 1983
as The Ghostly Horseman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGespenster Geschichten #13 published ?
as Ritt in die Ewigkeit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Headless Ghost of Halley Hollow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Reprinting
FlagMystery Comics Digest #7 published September 1972
as The Headless Ghost of Halley Hollow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! #80 published August 1978
as The Headless Ghost of Halley Hollow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagRipley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories #R1377 published January 1983
as The Headless Ghost of Halley Hollow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGespenster Geschichten #13 published ?
as Das Phantom ohne Kopf [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Triceratops

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Dinosauria
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
History of Triceratops, includes illustrations.

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