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Issue: Adventures into Darkness #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #8 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: Standard ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Periodicals, page 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mark of Evil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed)
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio [as Rocke] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Herb Field
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A ruthless reporter kills for a camera which is able to show future events. When the gadget shows his own doom, he flees - but is caught by the police.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: B-1381
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Creepy Crossword Puzzle

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Job Number: B-1470
Disclose Notes: Follows upper half page of advertising.
Illustration of a skeleton trying to answer the riddle.
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Death's Bridal Gown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Citron
Inker(s): Sam Citron
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Young Olga goes to the dance in a second-hand dress. Not only is she haunted by the ghost of the former owner, but dies wearing it - because it was drenched in embalming fluid.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: B-1429
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The Beast Wasn't Hungry

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): R. S. Fenton
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Synopsis: Two adventurers in Africa fight over a hidden treasure and try to feed each other to the crocodiles.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The House That Jackdaw Built

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Toth
Inker(s): Mike Peppe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Duffy
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Synopsis: Mr. Jackdaw entertains his guests in a futuristic "robot house". The electronic brain of the house tries to murder the guests, because Master Jackdaw taught it only to hate. When the brain realizes that there's also love, it turns against its inventor.
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In Content Item: FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as The House That Jackdaw Built [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: B-1421
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The Fatal Strands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Sultan
Inker(s): Charles Sultan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Herb Field
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A janitor murders his bossy landlady – and is in turn being murdered by the landlady’s hair (he used to mop the floors with).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-1450
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The Twisted Hands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Toth
Inker(s): Mike Peppe ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Herb Field
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: After a traumatic event at sea, a skipper retreats into the desert. But the ghost of a man (whom the skipper broke his hands) comes for him and drowns him with equal cruelty in a waterhole.
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In Content Item: FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as The Twisted Hands [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-1454

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