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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published January 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 32
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Index assembled from notes provided by Dr. Michael Vassallo on the GCD Chat List, 25 Oct 2002.

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan

5 page story "Kill Me a Monster"

Synopsis A professor hires an assassin to kill creatures who possess the bodies of men.
Genre Horror; Fantasy
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

2 page text story "The Groom Wore Black"

Genre Fantasy; Horror
Letters typeset

4 page story "Blood Relation"

Synopsis This story postulates that love can cure hereditary vampirism.
Genre Horror; fantasy
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

5 page story "The Fangs of the Wolf"

Synopsis A man who shoots dogs for fun is bitten by a werewolf. He even has hired a sharpshooter to kill any strays that might venture onto his property, but he regrets this action when he changes to wolf form and his hired hand shoots him.
Genre Horror; fantasy
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

5 page story "Symphony in Death"

Synopsis When a music critic steals a work from a composer and passes it off as his own, the composer attaches a rope to a phonograph and strangles the critic slowly by playing the recording.
Genre Horror; fantasy
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

4 page story "The Walking Dead"

Synopsis A zombie tries to eat a man but is tricked into a crematory chamber.
Genre Horror; fantasy
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte