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Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	January 1953
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?

Cover Details

Pencils	Ben Brown?
Inks	Ben Brown?

10 page Purple Claw story "The Power of the Purple Claw"

Characters	The Purple Claw (Intro)
Pencils	Ben Brown
Inks	David Gantz
Reprinted	in Purple Claw (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8; in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #9

6 page Purple Claw story "The Devil is a Dame!"

Characters	Doctor Jonathan Weir
Genre	horror
Pencils	Ben Brown (signed)
Inks	David Gantz (signed)
Reprinted	in Purple Claw (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8; in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #9; in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comic Press Inc, 1989 series) #4; in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #34

8 page Purple Claw story "untitled"

Pencils	Ben Brown
Inks	David Gantz
Reprinted	in Purple Claw (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8; in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comic Press Inc, 1989 series) #1

2 page text story "Doorway to Darkness"

Letters	typeset
Reprinted	in Purple Claw (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8

2 page story "Problems of Space Travel"

Pencils	Ed Smalle
Inks	Ed Smalle
Reprinted	from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #1