Fantastic Fears (1953) comic books 1955 or before

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Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Ajax-Farrell. Numbering continues from Captain Jet (1952) #5; sometimes listed as Fantastic Fears (1953) #7 (there was no issue #6). A scientist invents an invisibility formula and sets out to become a bank robber. A millionaire moves a European castle to America, complete with werewolf curse. A 2000-year-old seed unearthed from a Japanese tomb blossoms into a man-eating lotus plant. And Death Makes Three!; Curse or Coincidence; Hawk's Folly; The Blood Blossom. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Fiends from the Crypt"; Chasing a thief named Banco into the Rome sewers, Signor Renzi and his partner, Pietro find Banco with all his body eaten; They try to escape the sewer, and find themselves hunted by the Green Horde. "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Werewolf"; The Old Crone, saying she's the real grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood, tells the true story; Elmer Dowd turns into a werewolf; As a werewolf, he attacks Red Riding Hood. "Careless Corpse"; Dave Tibbets leaves his wife Becky so he can go to work; He crashes his car and dies; Not realizing he looks like death warmed over, he encounters a lot of people who do realize he looks that way as he heads for home. "Carnival of Terror"; Chun, the Snake Charmer, who charms cobras with his flute, stays with the carnival he despises only to stay near Millie Sears; He reveals his attraction to Millie, who laughs; Joe has Millie tell Chun she'd go with him, and he shows her where his money's hidden; Chun shows her the money, which is kept protected in the cobra cage; Joe and Millie go to steal the money. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Haunted Matador"; Matador Pepe Gonzales kills his rival by poisoning a bull's horns. "The Zombi's Bride"; Roy Gifford inspects a banana plantation in Hispaniola; He encounters a master "Zombi" and his army of servants; Gifford tries to put an end to his business. "Mirror Torment" text story; Mysterious ghost reflections appear in the mirrors of mobsters; The "Mirror Men" make the gangsters hallucinate and smash their crime syndicate. "Druid's Castle"; Ghostly druids haunt a manor in England; Psychic investigator Christopher Fenn uses a dematerializing machine of his own invention; With it, he turns himself, his dog Drum, and Lady Seeley into immaterial ghosts; They use their new form to better negotiate with the ghost druids. "Floating Coffin"; Ships are caught in the treacherous Sargasso sea and attacked by a seaweed monster named "Sargasso." 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"My Coffin Must Wait"; Seth is informed that his wife Martha is dying; He vows to fulfill her last wish, driving her through a blizzard, defeating some bank robbers who want to hijack his car, and crashing through a police roadblock to reach town; Seth says he promised Martha she'd have her photograph taken one last time, and he gets Mr. Townsend to do it just before she dies. "Caught in the Graft"; Corrupt city official Sam is caught and sentenced to prison; Since he suffers from claustrophobia, Sam can't tolerate confinement; Working in the prison morgue, Sam learns the bodies are subsequently sent to the city morgue, a building constructed under his crooked supervision; Sam climbs into a coffin and escapes from prison. "Ghost Gift" text story; Dan finds his war comrade Don in Africa, now in possession of a valuable jewel mine. "Stretching Things," script by Bruce Hamilton, art by Steve Ditko; Dawson suffers from brittle bone syndrome, but Dr. Doyle invents "muiclac" to cure him; He discovers this makes him "elastic" and murders Doyle to keep his secret. "Escape from Hell!"; Criminal Richard Benton dies and goes to Hell; He's sentenced by Satan to drag a boulder around for eternity; Benton struggles to climb a mountain to freedom, plagued by demons and hindered by the boulder, only to learn "there is no escape from Hell!" "Temple of the Beast"; In Siam, American tourists Sam and Anne buy "the hand of Sivak," a local god; The vendor later buys it back from Sam but the hand comes alive and strangles him; Anne recovers the hand and mails it to the USA. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Robert Webb and others. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Ajax-Farrell. A prehistoric egg is accidentally incubated by a museum, hatching an ancient monstrosity. In an unusual tale, a coffin narrates its own life story. A demonic fiddler creates chaos and conflict with his music. Dragon Egg!; Inhuman Killer; I, the Coffin; Deadly Shadows; Demon Fiddler. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Terror under Glass," art by Robert Webb (Iger Shop); David sees a psychiatrist about his recurring nightmare of being suffocated in an hourglass; Under hypnosis, he reveals that he was a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and collaborated with his captors; As a result, many of his fellow Americans died, including some in a building constructed in hourglass-shape. "Fear in the Jungle"; Wealthy Matilda turns down Tom's proposal, saying she wants to marry jungle man Kaza; Matilda and her companion Dorothy travel to Africa and use her influence to force the commissioner to ask Kaza to guide her on safari; Tom follows and tries to ambush Kaza. "Be My Ghost"; When Pierre learns his wife Gigi is pregnant, he takes a job as the official executioner to earn money for his family; He doesn't tell Gigi what he's doing, and decides to quit because the strain is too much for him; However, Gigi had learned the truth and began an affair with another man, then murdered him. "Ghost Bullet" text story. "Green Horror," pencils by Ken Battefield (Iger Shop); Over her husband's objections, Martha plants a cactus in the yard of their home; George broods over the plant and one night decides to chop it down, but the cactus seizes the axe and kills George instead; The police think a prowler did it. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.