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Issue: Haunt of Fear #20
Publication Date: August 1997
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Issues: #20 of 20 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGemstone
Brand: An Entertaining EC ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $3.45 CAD
$2.50 USD
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ? (reprint)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #20 published July 1953
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Thump Fun!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Luther Courtney (death); Gilbert Courtney (Luther's brother, death); three detectives (in flashback); three Policemen; Marvin Courtney (villain, brother of Luther)
Synopsis: A murderer thinks he is like the character in Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart", imagining he hears a heartbeat in the walls, but after police examine the area they find his older brother's corpse. When the youngest brother admits to slaying the eldest brother for the family inheritance and burying the body in the cellar, the police dig it up, and it is revealed to be missing its heart.
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #20 published July 1953
was Thump Fun! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Terror Train

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault-Keeper's E.C. Classic
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Gloria; Ralph (Gloria's husband)
Synopsis: Gloria was in a cab, running away from her husband Ralph...heading toward the train station and the train that would take her away from this man whom she thought was trying to poison her. Seated on the train, she imagined him at every turn, remembering the $25,000 insurance policies Ralph had taken out on them both, and then remembered that poison bottle he had brought home. A series of events following end when she awakens in her berth on the train, then sees Ralph with an attendant in a white coat, who takes her off to a nice house with bars on it so that Ralph can never get to her again!
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From Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #12 published April 1950
was Terror Train [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Bob Gorby, Carlos M. Federici, David Dellario, Barry McCollum, Claus Simonsen.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Poem by Frank X. Mattson; fan art by Erin Tinney, Kurt Krause.
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Bloody Sure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); a vampire (villain)
Synopsis: A man marries a woman the townsfolk warn him away from because, after her previous five husbands sicken and die, they think she is a vampire. It turns out her child has a rare blood disorder and she has been performing transfusions upon the men as they slept at night. The man knows she isn't a vampire because he is in fact one, and he drains both her and the child's blood.
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #20 published July 1953
was Bloody Sure [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Hyde and Go Shriek!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A chemist strings along a rich admirer of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who is willing to pay to have such a personality altering formula recreated. The joke is on the chemist when he ingests the formula he comes up, thinking that it's a placebo, but it actually does work and he loses control of himself and murders his girlfriend.
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From Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #20 published July 1953
was Hyde and Go Shriek! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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