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Issue Details

Issue #1173
Published March-May 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE TWILIGHT ZONE, No. 1173." Code number is T.T.ZONE O.S. #1173-612. Copyright 1960 by Cayuga Productions, Inc. Based on "The Twilight Zone" TV series.

Cover Details - "The Phantom Lighthouse"

Characters Rod Serling (photo)
Genre Occult
Pencils ? (painting); ? (photo)
Inks ? (painting); ? (photo)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page The Twilight Zone foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "There is a Fifth Dimension..."

Genre Occult
Script Rod Serling
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. The intro to the TV show printed in white text against an abstract background.

10 page The Twilight Zone story "Specter of Youth"

Characters Rod Serling (cameo)
Synopsis A elderly merchant becomes rich by dealing in illegally obtained ancient artifacts. He receives a jar that supposedly contains a liquid that will give the gift of eternal youth.
Genre Occult
Pencils Reed Crandall; George Evans
Inks George Evans; Reed Crandall
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Evans and Crandall appear to both work on pencils and inks.
Reprinted in Twilight Zone (Gold Key, 1962 series) #21 (May 1967)

12 page The Twilight Zone story "The Phantom Lighthouse"

Characters Rod Serling (cameo)
Synopsis On an ice-fishing trip to the Great Lakes, a father and his son find an old fisherman, who tells an odd story about needing to find his boat before a storm hits. Later, a storm breaks up the ice and the pair are stranded on an ice floe. They are saved when the floe is run aground on an island with a lighthouse, whose keeper is the old fisherman.
Genre Occult
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted in Twilight Zone (Gold Key, 1962 series) #21 (May 1967) [Page three deleted from the reprint].

10 page The Twilight Zone story "Doom By Prediction"

Characters Rod Serling (cameo)
Synopsis Archie, a porter and handyman at an airport, seems to have the power of prophecy.
Genre Occult
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall ?; George Evans ?
Letters Ben Oda
Notes George Evans ink credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Twilight Zone (Gold Key, 1962 series) #25 (April 1968); in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #18 (July 1974)

1 page The Twilight Zone filler "Journeys in the Twilight Zone"

Synopsis The possibilities of the existence of extra-sensory perception, telepathy, precognition, and psychometry.
Genre fact
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans ?; Reed Crandall ?
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Reed Crandall inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Reprinted in Twilight Zone (Gold Key, 1962 series) #29 (June 1969); in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #18 (July 1974)

1 page The Twilight Zone filler "Travelers in the Twilight Zone"

Characters Nostradamus; Edgar Cayce; Shanti Devi; Peter Hurcos
Synopsis Four people with extra-sensory powers.
Genre fact
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans ?; Reed Crandall ?
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Back cover. Reed Crandall inks credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Reprinted in Twilight Zone (Gold Key, 1962 series) #26 (July 1968); in Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1972 series) #21 (January 1975)