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Issue: Ghosts #1
Publication Date: September 1971
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Issues: #1 of 112 Issues (173 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [character]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/01/1971
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The indicia reads just " Ghost ", with a lot of white space on both sides of the word. The cover and later issues read as "Ghosts". It is believed this issue was originally to be titled "True Ghost Stories" - thus the white space in the indicia, but then it was changed to "Ghosts". When they updated the indicia they whited out "True" and "Stories", but they forgot to add the "s".
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver and Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #40 only)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted From2
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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, mystery
First Line: I pronounce you man and wife...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Ghosts #1 published January 2012
as Ghosts #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B1031
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We Challenge You to Read On!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, mystery
Character(s): Abraham Lincoln; Arthur Conan Doyle; Mark Twain
First Line: Since the dawn of time...
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Ghosts #1 published January 2012
as We Challenge You to Read On! [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1004
Disclose Notes: Introduction to the concept of ghosts.
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Death's Bridegroom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Ron Tracey; Cyrus Horne; Sharon Dean; Burton; David Colby
First Line: Don't be shy, lover!
Synopsis: She had waited years for her betrothed, only to have a con man stage a weirdo wedding - until she pulled the last trick on him!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLimited Collectors' Edition #C-32 published December 1974
as Death's Bridegroom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #24 published January 1976
as Death's Bridegroom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Ghosts #1 published January 2012
as Death's Bridegroom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Job Number: B-976
Disclose Notes: Synopsis from the table of contents in the reprint.
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Ghost in the Iron Coffin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Franz Kollmer
First Line: 1942 - The shipyards at Kiel, Germany...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Ghosts #1 published January 2012
as Ghost in the Iron Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: B-977
Disclose Notes: Note on page 6 says the next issue will be on sale on or about September 7th.
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The Tattooed Terror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Richard Foreman; Marvelo the Magician; Burt Jorgens
First Line: His nights were bad...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSensation Mystery #112 published November 1952
was The Tattooed Terror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
Job Number: B-1050
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The Last Dream!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Frederic Beaumont; Tybalt Fletcher; Edgar Beaumont; Sir Francis Drake; Admiral Nelson; Willard Beaumont; Dr. Petri Vorcine
First Line: Frederic Beaumont had an uncanny, recurring dream!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSensation Comics #107 published January 1952
was The Last Dream! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
Job Number: B-1051
Disclose Notes: Pencilling and editorial credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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The Cadaver Comes Home

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (coffin illo)
Inker(s): ? (coffin illo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Fate plays strange tricks...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1017
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The Spectral Coachman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Johnny Cass; the ghost of Rafe Brady
First Line: It was one eerie night in 1956...
Synopsis: Tombstone, Arizona, draws its name from the town graveyard where the greatest badmen of the west are buried. But tonight - one of them lives again!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLimited Collectors' Edition #C-32 published December 1974
as The Spectral Coachman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Ghosts #1 published January 2012
as The Spectral Coachman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-1003
Disclose Notes: Synopsis from the table of contents in the reprint.

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