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Issue: Haunt of Fear #8
Publication Date: July 1951
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Issues: #8 of 28 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset); The Crypt-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #8 published August 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hounded to Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Witch's Cauldron!
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Hee, hee! Welcome again, my dear little fiends!
Synopsis: A man who keeps hounds starving for the foxhunt catches another guy making time with his wife. The wife tells him to pretend he's had a heart attack so the husband will dump his body down the road, but instead, since the husband is wise to them, he tosses the body into the dog kennel where it is ripped to shreds. The corpse returns to take revenge upon the husband.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #8 published August 1994
as Hounded to Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Based on the story "The Kennel" by Maurice Level.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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The Very Strange Mummy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror!
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host)
First Line: I see by the mail that many of you like mummy stories!
Synopsis: Explorers discover a vampire entombed as a mummy. They stake it.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #8 published August 1994
as The Very Strange Mummy! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Hounded to Death!,” above).
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Unguarded!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man sneaks into a vault in Haiti to rob from the dead, only to have the dead come to life.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from A. Belliose, Phil Carpenter, and Gerard Robbins.
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Diminishing Returns!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
First Line: Here's a cutting horror yarn I'm sure will rate tops with you!
Synopsis: A man sets up a deal with the Jivaro head-hunter tribe to exchange his duped victims for large uncut diamonds. After his fourth victim is dispatched this way he receives a package at his doorstep. Upon opening the package he is terrified to see that it is the shrunken head of his last dupe. The head opens its eyes and glares at him. He drops the package and the head rolls free and attaches its teeth into his ankles, tripping him. Then the head tears his throat out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1990 published January 1990
as Hodebry! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #8 published August 1994
as Diminishing Returns! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art credit from The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #2.

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Cover story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Hounded to Death!,” above).
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The Irony of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host); Mr. Kreegor (plant owner, death); Sandra Kreegor Slag (Kreegor's daughter and Slag's wife); Jeffrey Slag (villain, plant superintendent, death)
First Line: Now that my fellow GhouLunatics have finished their inane narrations...
Synopsis: A man tosses his steel mill boss into the vat after marrying the boss's daughter thus inheriting the mill. Two of the ingots get made into an iron maiden for a museum exhibit and when he tries it out for size, it slams shut on him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1991 published January 1991
as Helstøpt hevn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #8 published August 1994
as The Irony of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Based on the story "The Squaw" by Bram Stoker.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Hounded to Death!,” above).

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