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Issue: The Comics That Ate My Brain! #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1991
 
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Publisher: FlagMalibu Comics
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Indicia Publisher: Malibu Graphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1991
Volume:
Pages: 124
ISBN: 0944735770
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Price: $11.95 CAD
$9.95 USD
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Content Items: 27 (18 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 6.75" x 10.25" (17.1 cm x 26 cm)
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Gruesome tales of graphic horror!
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Inside front cover.
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Title page uses the artwork from the first page of "The Ship of Lost Souls".
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Murder, Cannibalism, Necrophelia, Dismemberment and More!

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Contents

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Illustrated with a panel from page 5 from "The Rift of the Maggis".
Hideout in Hell

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The Bexer gang robs a bank and goes into hiding. They quarrel over the loot and two of them shoot each other. When the police come searching the woods, Bexer crawls into the compound where the bodies are stored. His phobia of corpses drives him insane.
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FlagWeb of Evil #7 published October 1953
was Hideout in Hell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Lucky Cat

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FlagWeird Chills #2 published September 1954
was The Black Cat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Pit and the Pendulum

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A man goes nearly mad being tortured in Spain.
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FlagNightmare #2 published January 1952
was The Pit and the Pendulum [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Sunken Grave

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Jed decides to marry Lee, to the dismay of Vickie who offers her house for the wedding. Lee gets a bad sunburn. Vicki convinces Lee that her face is hideously deformed. Vicki tries to shoot Lee and is crushed between floors of her house.
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FlagJourney into Fear #5 published January 1952
was The Sunken Grave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Man with Hollow Eyes

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Mildred Ward is planning on poisoning her second husband. Her first husband George appears in ghostly form and thwarts her evil plans in every possible way. Ghostly George spills the poison, murders her lover boyfriend and demands that Mildred join him in death.
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FlagJourney into Fear #5 published January 1952
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Dream!

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A man is abducted and taken into the dank bowels of the city where he is tortured by a strange cult and then released.
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FlagWeird Mysteries #9 published March 1954
was Dream! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Ship of Lost Souls

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The gambling ship “Hades” capsizes and dozens of passengers are killed inside the hull. The ship’s owner, Harry Cain, is responsible for this tragedy, because his ship was not ballasted the right way. Two newspaper reporters, who were allegedly killed onboard, have survived and stage a scoop. Posing as ghosts they kidnap Cain, bring him aboard the “Hades” and make him confess his deadly negligence. As Cain whips out a gun, another tidal wave rolls in and takes Cain down to the bottom of the sea.
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FlagWeb of Evil #7 published October 1953
was The Ship of Lost Souls [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Up Pops the Devil!

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Mister Lucifer
unnamed policeman (death); Mulligan (policeman); Mister Lucifer (villain); Lucifer's evil minions (villains); two thugs [Clipper; other unnamed] (villains)
Two crooks rob a store, shoot a policeman and hide out in a cemetery to hide their stolen funds, when suddenly Mr. Lucifer appears, being freed by the crook's actions. Lucifer then frees his evil minions and together all go forth to commit dastardly deeds. By a quirk of fate, Lucifer and his followers trap themselves in a grave of cement.
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FlagSpook Comics #1 published January 1945
was Up Pops the Devil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Death Rides High

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horror, mystery
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FlagCrime Mysteries #10 published November 1953
was Death Rides High [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Wig-Maker

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Lem Boone is a famous wig-maker. The secret to his life-like wigs is that he robs graves and scalps the dead. Boone goes too far when he desecrates the burial mound of an American native warrior.
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FlagWitches Tales #23 published February 1954
was The Wig-Maker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Henry Small... Huckster

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Henry Small
Henry Small is a con man who will talk his way out of any predicament, until he is finally shot dead. Facing the devil Small strikes his next bargain.
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FlagWitches Tales #23 published February 1954
was Henry Small.... Huckster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Red Spider!

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Damon Rankin, an entomologist, collects insects. While on vacation on a small Caribbean island, he comes across a fabled red spider. By killing it, he sets free evil powers.
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FlagWitchcraft #3 published July 1952
was The Red Spider [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Death on Ice

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horror
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FlagStrange Fantasy #6 published June 1953
was Death on Ice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Dance of Death

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The dancer Sonia comes back from the grave to lure her beloved partner Igor into deadly exhaustion by performing the "Dance of Death" with him. When the music finally can be stopped, Sonia is defeated.
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FlagTerrific #14 published December 1954
was Dance of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Volcano of Doom!

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Mala; Tani
Mala, god of the volcano, is angered when a village sacrifices his representatives to the volcano and causes the dead to return from their graves to haunt the village.
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FlagTomb of Terror #6 published November 1952
was Volcano of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Rift of the Maggis

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horror
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FlagTomb of Terror #11 published September 1953
was The Rift of the Maggis [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Green Killer!

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A man encounters an evil and malevolent tree on his property that was responsible for the deaths of many people through the centuries.
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FlagChamber of Chills Magazine #8 published May 1952
was Green Killer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Haunted Murderer!

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John Dunn has a poltergeist which won’t leave him. Maybe that is Dunn’s form of punishment for murdering and robbing a man some weeks ago. The poltergeist causes embarrassing scenes for Dunn and gets the attention of the police.
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FlagEerie #11 published April 1953
was The Haunted Murderer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Graphic Novels

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Malibu's back list.
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Inside back cover.
Graphic Evil Lurks Within!

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Back cover. Illustrated with a panel from "The Pit and the Pendulum".

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