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Issue Details

Issue #v5#1
Published January 1973
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 52
Editing Carl Burgos; Ezra Jackson (art)

Cover Details

7 page story "Satan's Pit of Evil"

Synopsis "There are those who probe the chilling secrets of yawning graves and then fall prey to Satan's bloody evil." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #7 [redrawn version of "League of the Damned"]; in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v9#3 [in the redrawn version as "Pit of Evil"]; in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#2 [in the redrawn version as "Pit of Evil"]

5 page story "A Scream of Horror"

Synopsis "A shocking combination of greed, science, and reincarnation that will crunch the pit of your stomach." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Chamber of Chills (Harvey, 1951 Series) #22 (March 1954). Original title "Reincarnation."

6 page story "The Monster That Burns"

Synopsis "A spine chilling explosion of horror and murder as the genial but deadly fat man searches for immortality." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 Series) #10 (May 1952) [a redrawn version of "The Flaming Horror"]; in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 [in this version]

6 page story "The Twisted Brain"

Synopsis "Long dead curios come to life and leave a bloody trail of death under the guidance of the man with a twisted brain." (from TOC
Genre horror
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted from ?

6 page story "The Dead Demons"

Synopsis "Hideous demons rise from the grave and make their homes in the minds of evil men." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted from ?; in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v12#3; in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v1#3; in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#2

6 page story "The Bloody Guillotine"

Synopsis "A mystic power reaches from beyond the grave with the razor edge of the terrifying guillotine to enforce his strange vengeance." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Pencils Stepancich (signed)
Inks Stepancich (signed)
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted from Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#2 [a redrawn version of ?]

6 page story "The Rat Race"

Synopsis "A gruesome portrait of a man who cannot escape his destiny with a sharp fanged rat." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Notes Pre-code reprint with new title and art.
Reprinted from Voodoo (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #12 [a redrawn version of "Fear Has a Name"]

6 page story "The Old Crone's Voodoo"

Synopsis "A professor of the unusual is trapped in a cave where screeching witches were sealed centuries before he was born." (from TOC)
Genre horror
Pencils Oscar Fraga (signed)
Inks Oscar Fraga (signed)
Notes Same basic script as original with new art.
Reprinted from Beware (Trojan, 1953 Series) #8 (March 1954). Original title "When Witches Summons" (?)