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Issue: Boris Karloff Thriller #2
Publication Date: January 1963
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/18/1962
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Quarterly
Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Card Stock Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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The Smiling Cavalier

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (photograph, inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as Boris Karloff Thriller #2 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Based on the interior story, The Smiling Cavalier.
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Pictures Come to Life!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Foreword and listing of contents, inside front cover, black & white
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Blind Man's Bluff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (host); Jim Blake (death); Buzz Murphy (death); Judy Davis
Synopsis: During a race, Buzz Murphy, driving very recklessly because Jim is in the lead, causes Jim to crash. Afterwards, Buzz asks Jim's fiancée out for a drink while he is in the hospital. The next day while Buzz is driving on the racetrack Jim suddenly shows up behind him and causes him to die in a crash. The people at the wreckage comment that Jim had died in the hospital just before the crash.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as Blind Man's Bluff [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #177 published ?
as Die Teufelskurve ins Jenseits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Dreamer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (host); Dr. E. Korvo; Mark Pearson (death); Diane; Dr. A. B. Haven
Synopsis: Mark Pearson shows up at Dr. Korvo's (a psychiatrist) office after hours begging him to help him. He has a recurring dream about being on a ship when it sinks. Dr. Korvo agrees to try to help him and hypnotizes him because he has amnesia.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #8 published October 1972
as The Dreamer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Dreamer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #173 published ?
as Alptraum des Vergessens [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Smiling Cavalier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (host); Laurie Callan; Don Juan
Synopsis: Laurie Callan loves to visit the museum and try to sketch the 17th century masterpiece "The Smiling Cavalier" but she never seems to be able to get it right. One night when she accidentally remains in the museum after it closes the paintings come to life. The "Smiling Cavalier" (Don Juan) and the other two "Smiling Cavalier" paintings come out and chase Laurie until she can escape. The night guard that lets her out looks just like the Don Juan "Smiling Cavalier".
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Smiling Cavalier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #182 published ?
as Trio der Nacht [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 22, no. 11 (Nov 2011)
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The Man from Nowhere

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, occult
Character(s): Kaspar Houser (death); Earl Stanhope
Synopsis: The story of the mystery of Kaspar Houser. Nothing is known of his childhood, his strange sense of smell, his strange eyesight and the truth of various attacks on him that ended with his death.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery #22 [12¢ Cover Price] published June 1968
as The Man from Nowhere [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Man from Nowhere [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ? [WCL (Gold Key/Dell West Coast Letterer)]
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (host); Cecil Matthews (death); Fred; Mr. Johnson; Charlie
Synopsis: Cecil Matthews is a bank employee who is sick of his job. He steals $30,000 and flies to Hawaii where he plans to charter a plane to Papinee, an island he found in an old "Islands of Paradise" book. The bank notices the theft before he can get to Papinee so he hijacks a mail plane to fly him there. Once there he kills the pilot and settles in at the deserted village. What Cecil doesn't know is that the reason the village is deserted is that the Island of Papinee was chosen by the Government to use in a missile test. The next day he is destroyed when the bomb is detonated on the island.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #5 published July 1972
as The Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #195 published ?
as Das Paradies des Todes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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The Phantom Plane

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, occult
Synopsis: The story of the "Lady Be Good", a Liberator bomber from World War II. The "Lady Be Good" disappeared from Soluch in North Africa in May 1943 and wasn't seen again until May 1959 when it was found in the Sahara Desert. The tracks of its men intersected with the tracks of two other forces: Italian soldiers and British soldiers. The trail was eventually lost and it was never known how the plane got to the Sahara Desert or what happened to its crew.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #2 published April 1972
as The Phantom Plane [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Phantom Plane [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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The Devil's Armchair

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Martha Harris (death); Mr. Duval; Stanley Harris; Lucy Rambeau (death); Jean Maraque
Synopsis: Martha Harris buys an antique chair for her husband's birthday. He loves the chair but when she or her friend try to sit in it they are jabbed. She tries to take the chair back but is told that it is cursed and that she must keep it forever. It was used by a man named Jean Maraque to kill a young lady who spurned him. Martha does not believe the story and is killed when she tries to throw the chair out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #11 published May 1973
as The Devil's Armchair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Devil's Armchair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #167 published ?
as Der Lehnstuhl des Teufels [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 22, no. 11 (Nov 2011)
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Find the Traitor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, occult
Character(s): General Luis Amendez (death); Perez; Colonel Menderes
Synopsis: General Luis Amendez is driven through a quiet city to his presidential palace. He rules with an iron fist where people are afraid to even speak around him. When he finds a letter saying that he must die and that the people will be free he tells the police to find the individuals behind the letters and to kill them, but if the police can't find them, they will be killed themselves. The police find that the one writing the letters is General Amendez himself (he suffers from schizophrenia). They kill the General to keep from being killed themselves.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #2 published April 1972
as Find The Traitor [Story on Interior Page(s)]-1 page
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as Find the Traitor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Black Pit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (host); Mort Fallon; Mr. Stoker; Jamie Walsh; Dan Walsh; Matt Walsh; Jamie's father
Synopsis: Mort Fallon wants to write an article on the 10th anniversary of a mine collapse. Jamie Walsh agrees to take Mort on a tour of the mine and only agrees to take him to the site of the collapse when Mort offers him $100. While on their way there they hear "tommyknockers" (the souls of miners who lost their lives there) warning them to leave.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #8 published October 1972
as The Black Pit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Black Pit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #174 published ?
as Die Rückkehr der schwarzen Männer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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A Very Strange Burial

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, occult
Character(s): Boris Karloff (host); Sydney Clybourne (death); Malcolm Billings (death); Alf; Caleb Mason; Mosesh; Sekoo (death)
Synopsis: Sydney Clybourne walks in front of a car and is killed. When the police investigate the accident they find a book on him with a story from Sydney's time in Tanganyika. Sydney was on a safari there with Malcolm Billings when they heard a story about a strange ritual that a local tribe goes through whenever their chief dies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #11 published May 1973
as A Very Strange Burial [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as A Very Strange Burial [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #179 published ?
as Das Tal der Häuptlingsgräber [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Amazing Peter Hurkos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, historical, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Peter Hurkos
Synopsis: Peter Hurkos, the man with the x-ray brain, helps the Dutch authorities in the city of Nijmegen identify the arsonist terrorizing the area.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as The Amazing Peter Hurkos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover, black and white. Script credit from Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 22, no. 11 (Nov 2011)
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Thriller Pin-Up No. 2

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBoris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives #1 published June 2009
as Boris Karloff Thriller #2 back cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Reprint of the front cover without photograph, logo or caption.

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