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Issue: The Thing #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1954
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Issues: #12 of 17 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Charlton PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 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 Thing

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as Steve Ditko's The Thing! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]cover
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as The Thing #12 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: First published comic book cover by Steve Ditko.
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Cinderella

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Hello, once again, dear readers...
Synopsis: Cinderella is being kept slave by her vampire sisters. She leaves home without permission - to warn the prince of an imminent vampire attack.
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In Content Item: FlagSteve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] published January 2006
as Cinderella [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as Cinderella [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Melvin Comes Home!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Melvin was miserly about everything but his love for his employer's beautiful wife.
Synopsis: With the aid of Amazonian native Jagarta, Melvin disposes of a rival. When Melvin refuses to pay Jagarta for his services, he finds himself to be on the receiving end of a black magic spell.
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In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #18 published January 1975
as Melvin Comes Home [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Thing's Revenge

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Henry Cooper, owner of Cooper's Motel and Cottages in Ellendale, wasn't a very happy man.
Synopsis: A publicity stunt takes on a life of its own. Around a haunted house supernatural things begin to happen.
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Pages: 2
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The Mummy's Curse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: How would you like to make a date with a gal three thousand years old?
Synopsis: Egyptian mummy comes alive in a modern laboratory and runs amok.
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In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #14 published March 1974
as The Mummy's Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Food For Thought

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
First Line: Here's that special food we've been working on night and day, Lambert...
Synopsis: A thief stealing animal food and eating it turns into a snake-man.
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Pages: 1
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The Sound of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
First Line: Dr. Horatio Grevius was a rich ear surgeon who was madly in love with music...
Synopsis: Scorned amateur musician Horation Grevius constructs an ultra-sonic violin to murder his critics. But his cunning plan has a flaw.
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In Issue: FlagDoomsday #6 published February 1972
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #9 published May 1973
as The Sound of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Greed....

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lord Sansone; witch (unnamed)
First Line: Greed... takes many forms... lust for money, thirst for power, selfish desire for fame...
Synopsis: Lord Sansone wants to know all of his ancestors and conjures them to appear before him. In the end a prehistoric gorilla springs at him.
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Pages: 2

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