This Magazine Is Haunted (1951 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books
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Item #64453104
This Magazine Is Haunted (1951 Fawcett/Charlton) 10 GD+ 2.5
1" Spine split from top with interior splitting and tearing.
Starts Apr 4 Edited by Will Lieberson, V.A. Provisiero and Al Jetter. Stories by Bill Woolfolk and unknown. Art by Shelly Moldoff, Bob McCarty, Leonard Frank and unknown. Horror tales that are so scary they could only lead you to believe that This Magazine is Haunted! In this issue: When Professor Niles unearths the remains of a Neanderthal man, the whole town suddenly regresses into inexplicable caveman behavior in "Let the Past Lie Buried!" with pencils by Shelly Moldoff. Plus: An adventurous photographer wants to take pictures of a mysterious, forbidden place called City of the Dead amidst a desert. He forces his entry by poisoning himself, but takes too high a dose and actually belongs in the realm of the dead in "The City of the Dead!" with art by Bob McCarty. Also: Engineer Roger Ellis is able to see striking doom in form of a black phantom. With a sorcerer's help he captures the phantom and imprisons it. But the horrible creature can free itself and strikes again in "Phantom of Disaster!" with story by Bill Woolfolk. And: Art painter Leo Main is threatened by his landlady Mrs. Tyran. He paints a murder scene involving her and an ominous fat man. The fat man becomes reality, though, and starts developing a will of his own in "The Fat Man!" with art by Leonard Frank. Plus: 2-page text story "The Mills Grind Fine" written by John Martin, and ads for Strange Stories from Another World and Worlds of Fear. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #64453105
This Magazine Is Haunted (1951 Fawcett/Charlton) 18 VG/FN 5.0
Cover oxidation. Water damage.
Starts Apr 4 Edited by Al Fago. Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Molno, John Belfi, Steve Ditko, Shelly Moldoff and Sy Moskowitz. Horror tales that are so scary they could only lead you to believe that This Magazine is Haunted! Includes EC swipe of Haunt of Fear #5, injury to eye panel. In this issue: Xanadu, the misshapen youngest brother of four, plots and schemes his way to the throne. Having disposed of his brothers, Xanadu is faced with their ghostly revenge in "The Last Earl!" with art by Bill Molno (as Joe Shuster) and John Belfi. Plus: An evil man is marrying women for money and killing them afterwards. One of them, though, returns from the grave and surprises her former husband in "Bridegroom, Come Back!" with art by Steve Ditko. Also: Graverobber Charley Deffer takes over the job of the cemetery caretaker, because the dead themselves have chosen him in "Caretaker of the Dead" with art by Shelly Moldoff, reprinted from Beware Terror Tales (1952) #1. And: A jeep crashes in the jungle and a party of four is led before the Grand Kabah, the master of death. All fail their test in this realm between life and afterlife in "Valley of Shadow" with art by Sy Moskowitz. Plus: 2-page text story "The Land of No Place"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #64453106
This Magazine Is Haunted (1951 Fawcett/Charlton) 19 FR/GD 1.5
Centerfold detached at one staple. Water damage.
Starts Mar 23 Edited by Al Fago. Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Molno, Ray Osrin, Sy Moskowitz, Shelly Moldoff and unknown. Horror tales that are so scary they could only lead you to believe that This Magazine is Haunted! In this issue: Wife commands her lover to murder the husband. But things go wrong, because "beings from the spectral world" interfere with events in "Where Do They Lurk?" with art by Bill Molno (as Joe Shuster) and Ray Osrin. Plus: Farmer family Yancy kills the cruel land owner Mr. Kreeg. But his remains (used as a scarecrow) come alive and take bloody revenge in "Final Payment" with art by Sy Moskowitz. Also: Al Duquette is a small time crook afraid of water. When he goes to hell, the devil assigns him to the torture of eternal drowning in "Doom of the Cheat!" with art by Moskowitz. And: Beautiful Carlotta marries undertaker Hiram for his money. Things get dangerous when she finds out that her husband made a pact with the devil in person in "The Coffin Maker!" with art by Shelly Moldoff, reprinted from issue #1. Plus: 2-page text story "Picture of Death," and 1-page stories "Friendship Beyond Death" and "The Ghost of Port Palos"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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