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Issue: They Came from the 50’s #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1990
 
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Publisher: FlagMalibu Comics
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Indicia Publisher: Malibu Graphics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 116
ISBN: 0944735452
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $11.95 CAD
$9.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 27 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Genres: horror
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Contents

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Those Horrible Comics!

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Death Lies Ahead

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Character(s): Satan; Mab Grendel; Wulf Grendel; Morgan Pierson; Mrs. Tate
Synopsis: Two beggars find a newspaper from days in the future and use the obituaries to predict people's deaths.
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Violence!

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The Man Who Cheated Death

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Synopsis: John Blane turns 70 years of age and is obsessed with wanting to live forever. One of the researchers in his laboratories comes up with a liquid which will grant eternal life. Blane drinks down the potion after having murdered his employee who was unwilling to part with it. He is quickly sentenced to die in the electric chair, but can’t be killed. The immortal Blane is locked away, but escapes and commits a bank robbery. During his getaway Blane is horribly mutilated in a car accident and has to spend eternity confined to a hospital bed.
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Devil Cat

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Synopsis: Sophia Drake meets a man who owns a magic cat which can make wishes come true. Sophia wishes for beauty, wealth and health - but has to pay a price each time. When she makes accusations about the cat in public she is thrown into a mental hospital.
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Step Into My Empty Shroud

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Synopsis: The gangster Reynolds is executed in the electric chair and buried in Potter's Field. In his mind he refuses to have died and battles his way out of a cemetery full of collegial skeletons. In the end Reynolds realizes the truth and crawls back into his grave.
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Elixir of Evil!

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Character(s): Professor George Denton; Karam; Liza Denton; Doddo (dog)
Synopsis: Professor Denton creates a formula to give a person super strength but it also turns them into a monster.
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The Obi Makes Jumbee

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Frozen Fear

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So What Next

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Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: Receptionist Dona Chepper sits all alone by the phone, fearing that the madman terrorizing the town might come to visit her.
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Ivan's-Woe

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Character(s): Sir Ivan Gwaine of Hampshire; Sir Gerald; Elizabeth; Fitzhugh; Sir Hugo Lavon of Blackmore; King John
Synopsis: Sir Hugo duels Sir Ivan after a slight from Elizabeth. Ivan wins, but is horribly disfigured.
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Crimson Death

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Synopsis: The down-and-out dance act of Jack and Daisy jazzes up the performance by including voodoo rituals. The undead do not approve of this and haunt their lives with a rising feeling of paranoia. Jack and Daisy see death behind every corner – until they kill off each other in a mad frenzy.
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Skull Scavenger

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Synopsis: A man who found the secret of living forever seeks the antidote.
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Undertaker

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Character(s): Doxy
Synopsis: Doxy's father, the undertaker, refuses to let him go outside.
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The Garcon

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The Ghosts' Revenge

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Synopsis: James Kendall is a professional ‘ghost-breaker,’ relieving troubled persons of their fear of spooks. He is also the man who embezzled his ward’s fortune. So Kendall throws young Anne off a cliff to her death and is haunted thereafter by her ghost.
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Fatal Scalpel

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Also Available from Malibu Graphics

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