Comic books December 1951, graded by CGC

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Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Cover by Ken Bald. Stories by Ogden Whitney, Edvard Moritz, Milt Knopf, Leo Morey, Edvard Moritz, George Wilhelms, and King Ward. Spine-chilling tales of suspense, horror, and the supernatural—prepare yourself for Adventures into the Unknown! 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Allen Anderson. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Al Carreno, and Gerald McCann. Ziff-Davis's pre-Code horror comic only lasted one issue before Avon took exception to their use of the title "Eerie." This comic was mentioned in the text (pp. 317-318) of Dr. Fredric Wertham's anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent. Two brothers rescue a stranded space traveler, who repays them by planting blood-sucking vines in their cellar. A criminal on the run kills a scientist and tries to escape into "the fourth dimension." A chess tournament becomes a game with Death. Plus one-pagers about various ghosts. Painted cover with bondage elements by Allen Anderson. Famous American Ghosts; The Vampires from Venus!; The Grim Reaper; The Fountain of Youth!; The Perfect Hideout!; Deadline for Death!; Preview of Death; From Beyond the Grave. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by John Mitchell, credited as John Starr. Art by Sam Savitt and others. Adventures of the Western hero, a white woman raised by the Dakota tribe. Trouble erupts between tribes when a Cree chieftain wants Firehair for his wife; Train robbers disguise themselves as Dakotas, and Firehair puts a quick stop to that; Tex Rainger helps a woman who was forced off her land by outlaws. Classic cover by an unknown artist. Slave Maidens of the Crees; Broken Alibi; Firehair; Tex Rainger. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Maurice Whitman. The Banshee Bells, script by Drew Murdoch, art by Iger Studios and Alex Blum; Convict escapes from chain gang and is commandeered by the ghost of his evil brother to commit crimes like he did. Phantoms From the Sea, art by Iger Studios and Rafael Astarita; Pilot has to watch his carrier go down in a Japanese kamikaze attack, but survives because a ghostly double of his ship refuels him. Flee the Phantoms, art by Iger Studios and Alex Blum; After a car crash the driver gets a ride on the phantom bus transporting the deceased into the afterworld. The Parting, script by Drew Murdoch, art by Iger Studios and Alex Blum; The evil doll "Mr. Dingle" seduces Russell Burke to a life of crime. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Clarence Doore. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Murphy Anderson, George Tuska, Ed Silverman and Alex Kotzky. Tough marshal Bob Hardie is better known to friend and foe alike as The Hawk. The lawless town of Adobe Bend must change after Marshal Bob "Hawk" Hardie rides into town, but outlaw Slash hires Lobo Moreno to get rid of The Hawk. Marshal Hardie arrives in Armadillo Flats and goes after Reb Sutton and his band of killers. Pajaro, new chieftain of the Mescaleros, declares war on white settlers, but his blood brother Sangre tries to convince him otherwise, in a story with art by comics legend Murphy Anderson. Plus the lyrics to the Western tune "Billy Venero" and a comics biography of Walter Scott, the man known as "Death Valley Scotty." Nice painted cover by Clarence Doore. Death Valley Scotty; The Law of the Colt; Cowboy Songs of the Old West: Billy Venero; A Fair Exchange; Six-Gun Showdown; Ghost Towns of the Old West: Cripple Creek; Blood Brothers; The Great American Desert. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Pete Riss and John Martin. Mike Barnett, who did not carry a gun, was one of the first private-eye heroes on the brand-new medium of television. Baseball fans sometimes yell "kill the umpire," but when someone actually does it, Mike learns the umpire was up to some shady business. A search for counterfeit coins in the slums of Cairo leads Mike to the sinister, fez-wearing crimelord Dr. Dionysos. But the secret lies in finding the gold Dionysos is using to make his copies. Like many great private eyes, Mike narrates his stories in first-person. Kill the Umpire!; Doc Sorebones; Color Blind; The Mint of Dr. Dionysos; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: College Cutups; Dizzy Daisy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover of Bill Baker (Dean Martin) and Junior Jackson (Jerry Lewis). Nancy Olson article with photo. "Submarine Command," art by Ed Moore; Adaptation of the 1951 movie; Submarine commander Ken White remembers his wartime years aboard the USS Tiger Shark, a submarine. "Susan Hayward," art by Henry Kiefer; Susan Hayward talks about the filming of David and Bathsheba. Article on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. "That's My Boy," art by Harold LeDoux; Adaptation of the 1951 movie; The greatest player in the history of Ridgefield College gets his sickly, nerdy, uncoordinated son on the schools football team. Famous Funnies Patterns ad. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Bondage cover by Bill Fraccio. "Ghouls Feast at Midnight," art by A. C. Hollingsworth; A father and his son are under suspicion to be grave-robbing ghouls. "The Pool of Eternity," art by Lou Cameron; Adventurer David Murstone crashes in the jungle and is severely injured; Jivaro goddess Konocry saves his life by letting him drink from the "Pool of Eternity" and thus giving him immortality; The Jivaro tribe disagrees with her action and tortures the couple. "Terror of the Sleeping Monster!", art by Bill Fraccio; Sculptor Lawrence Matthews is endowed with a magic chisel; In his dreams a strange man called Maroff commands him to sculpt his image; Maroff is a vampire who comes alive again to wreak vengeance on the townspeople. "Strange Grotto of Death" text story by Ellen Lynn. "Horror of the Walking Dead," art by John D'Agostino; The young woman Kathy pleads with her dead mother to help her against the cruel woman her father married recently; Rosamund, the new stepmother is found dead—mysteriously shot through the head. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. "Fountains of Youth!", script and art by Johnny Craig; Eileen reads an ad in the newspaper asking for a traveling companion for a Madam DuBois, who is traveling abroad; She and Madam DuBois go on a cruise, but Eileen gets seasick. "The Monster in the Ice!", art by Graham Ingels; As Gerald Dawson sits as his desk in a shack in the Arctic, Herbert Campbell enters, telling him that their Eskimo guide refuses to take them any further; Dawson goes to see Lomo in his igloo, and the Eskimo tells him of the monster in the ice. "Choice" text story by William M. Gaines. "Gone... Fishing!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; Maxwell and Steven's car rolled up to the water's edge, and they got out to unload their equipment; Max was a noted sport-fisherman, but Steven hated the sport, which he considered cruelty to animals. Unauthorized adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story "The Emissary" in "What the Dog Dragged In!", script by Al Feldstein (adaptation), art by Jack Kamen; As she sat in her wheelchair, blind Betty reached out for her dog, Jerry, put a list in his collar, and sent him to the butcher's; unknown to her, Jerry was hit by a car on the way. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Katy Keene by Bill Woggon. Cover price $0.10.