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Issue: Strange Fantasy #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #8 of 14 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFarrell
Brand: A Farrell PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Farrell Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Death Strikes Four

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A party of four friends visits a country home. Little do they know that the clock tower nearby is inhabited by an evil spirit. The clockwork runs on human flesh and blood - as the friends soon find out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v2 #1 published February 1969
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTerror Tales v2 #4 published July 1970
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Galaxy v1 #9 published April 1971
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v4 #1 published January 1972
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v6 #3 published May 1974
as Tick-Tock Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
In Content Item: FlagThe Black Legend #[nn] published January 1984
as Death Strikes Four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Riddle of Manitou Rock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, western
Synopsis: Part indian hermit Terry lives under Manitou Rock, a sacred site. A friendly will o' the wisp guides him to a hidden bandit treasure, but some gangsters start to interfere.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v1 #6 published July 1969
as The Riddle of Manitou Rock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v3 #1 published February 1971
as The Riddle of Manitou Rock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Ghost Cat

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: African ghost story from Kenya: The great hunters R'wana and Ngobi fight over the chieftain's daughter, Blina.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Original title: "The Legend."
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Guided Death

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Subject Matter
Genres: war
Synopsis: Captain Davis, a pilot in the Korean conflict, bravely manages to direct an unmanned plane (a guided missile) straight into its target - thus blowing up a railroad tunnel.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Straight war story.
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Cry from the Coffin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A nameless man hits his head on a fire hydrant in the street and falls into a locked-in-state of being. Fully conscious, but unable to move or speak he has to witness identification by his unfaithful wife, an autopsy in which his heart is removed and his own funeral.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird v1 #12 published October 1966
as Cry from the Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v1 #7 published September 1969
as Cry from the Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #7 published January 1992
as Cry from the Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6

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