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Publication Date: January 2022
 
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Indicia Publisher: Famous Comics
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Pages: 348
ISBN: 9781945307317
UPC/EAN: 978194530731790000
Price: $49.95 USD
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Content Items: 80 (30 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: collected edition
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This Is How It Is

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[untitled]

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This is 1972 by Gill and Ditko

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Table of contents

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[untitled]

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Ghostly Haunts

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The Night Of the Lonely Man!

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The Night of the Lonely Man

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Return Visit!

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Treasure of the Tomb

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Return Visit!

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A Man Who Was Here

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A Man Who Was Here!

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I'll Never Leave You!

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I'll Never Leave You

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Ursula Borg Weaver; Bert Weaver
A man poisons his wife to inherit her fortune.
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The Secret of the Sacred Cave

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I'll Never Forget What's-His-Name!

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I'll Never Forget.. What's-His-Name?

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Till We Meet Again

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Henri Duval; Jean Marchant; Inger Jenson (sic)
Speleologists Henri and Jean, longtime friends, become wealthy after discovering valuable minerals in caverns throughout Europe. Unbeknownst to them, they are under observation by the creatures who dwell beneath the surface. Their friendship is strained when Inger (whom they both courted) marries Jean. While exploring the Harz mountains, Henri and Jean find humor in their failed attempts to murder each other and resolidify their friendship. Unfortunately the subterranean creatures have cut their lines to the surface.
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Ghostly Tales

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The Ghost Catcher

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The Ghost Catcher

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Meyer Meyer; Lavender (ghost); Anton (ghost)
No! I'm not hiding in the extras lounge at Paramount.
Meyer Meyer is a ghost collector.
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The Kept Promise

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The Night of the Laughing Wolf!

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Answer the Phone, Dottie

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Answer the Phone, Dottie!

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Dottie Horton; Mrs. Larry Rogers
Maybe you've got some of the pests in your town...
A girl makes prank calls to the wrong woman.
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The Devil's Bride!

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The Eye of the Cat

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They said a strange curse befell any man who coveted those emerald orbs, but Vincent Gryce's greed was greater than his fear!
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Journal of a Hanged Witch

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Kenneth Gadsby; Elizabeth Binns; Elijah Hewlitt
More than three-hundred years ago, this peaceful little farming community in eastern Massachusetts was the scene of a witchcraft trial...
Kenneth Gadsby investigates the hanging of a witch 300 years earlier.
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Here Comes the Bride

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Here Comes the Bride

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Mathew Rossen; Sofia; Anton; Gerda; Count Ludwig
They were honeymooning in Europe...
Count Ludwig tries to marry the already married Sofia Rossen.
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Don't Talk Back

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This is a lighter item on our agenda, kiddies...
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Haunted

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A Stay Of Execution

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Stay of Execution

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Amelia Doerr; Jonathan Doerr; Mr. Krupp; Jean Henri Delage
Jonathan Doerr is called to Europe to pay for the crimes of his ancestor.
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Driven to Destruction

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Henry Hoyt; Evelyn Hoyt
Henry's wife nags him, even from the grave.
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This Is How It Is

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The Garden of 1,000 Delights

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This Is How It Is!

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Reverend Forbes; Wilbur J. Crosley; Kenneth Crosley; Franklin Crosley; Alan Crosley; Emily Crosley; Joe Stenick; Marcel; Anna; Dr. White
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Two main characters look exactly like Peter Parker and Norman Osborn!
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Urn Your Fortune

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Along Came a Spider

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Stop the Clock

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Along Came a Spider and...

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Tyler Rand; Samantha Shields
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She's Waiting

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The Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves

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The Gift to Gifford

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A Gift for Gifford

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The Heart of Jeremy Mith...

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The Heart of Jeremy Mith

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Baldwin Bates; Jeremy Mith; Dr. Higgins
Baldwin Bates buys Jeremy Mith's heart for a transplant.
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Hey, Dad, Look

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The Borgia Stone!

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The Doll Makers

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Bury Him Deep!

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Morton Gault; Eunice Gault; Dr. Lake
Morton Gault fakes his death so his wife can get an inheritance but instead of rescuing him from the grave she leaves him there to die for real.
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The Ghost Master

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Ghostmaster

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Leland Menn is hired to create a haunted house for an amusement park. Everybody thinks the place is amazing on its opening day, but when they find Leland in the control room he's been dead for more than 24 hours and all the ghosts must have been real.
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From the Gallows to the Grave

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Dr. Graves
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From the Gallows to the Grave

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Dr. Graves
Dr. Graves (host); Lionel Breed; Sir Maurice Cokely; Giles de Grenville; Jonathan Prell; Tubbs
In England, early in the 18th century, squire Lionel Breed had a fine farm, a comely wife, and stout friends...
After an innocent man is framed and sent to the gallows, the men who framed him and the executioner who hanged him are all killed by a new, mysterious hangman.
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Ghost Manor

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The Waiting Noose

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Mr. Bones (host)
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The Waiting Noose

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Mr. Bones (host); Cyrus T. Shadd; Buckeye Jones; Charley
Cyrus T. Shadd returns to the ghost town where he became rich only to find a ghostly posse waiting for him.
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Come Back to Tlakluk

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Come Back to Tlakluk

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Come Back...to Tlakluk

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Amos Larkin; Captain Hansen; Lt. Hatch; Tsumo Makari
An American and Japanese fighter pilot are stranded on a remote Alaskan island during WWII.
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The Last Garland

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The Last Garland

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The Last Garland

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Hawkins; Lord Charles Garland; Mavis; Tony; Lord Garland (ancestor, ghost)
Lord Garland the 14th is a thief and a murderer but the ghost of the original Lord Garland sets things right.
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The Lonely Dead

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Monsters Ride at Night

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The Monsters Ride at Night

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Hawg; Ziggy; Maxwell; Ambie; Anthony Blinn [Ghost]; Ape
A demon worshipping biker gang terrorizes a small town.
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Step Forward, Brother

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Pryce Hilyard; Gerald Simms; James Cobham (ghost)
A college hazing ritual goes wrong.
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The 32-series by Ditko

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The Complete Four-Page Series

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The Avenging World

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A Touch of Genius

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Rodney Schroeter
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Ditko at Charlton: 1972

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