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Series: Diary of Horror

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Publisher: Avon

Title: Diary of Horror
Issue: 1
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: December 1952
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: ?

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Owner: Comicdey

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: Contents - foreword, introduction, preface, afterword
Pages:1


Story Title: Beware of the Undead! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Trinidad tourist Nat Grear learns of the native lore of the Obeah man, a devil incarnate. There was a man named Tamiko who killed out of pure lust, until he fell to his death in a waterfall. Grear plans to shove his wealthy uncle into the cursed waters, but ends up drowning there himself. He now has all of eternity to spend and suffer along with the original Obeah man.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:?; typeset


Story Title: The Mirror of Death! - comic story
Pages:6
Letters:typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Steve Lajos [Robert Martin]; Isabel; Henrietta
Synopsis:When on shore-leave sailor Steve Lajos changes into dapper businessman Robert Martin and robs unsuspecting ladies of their jewelry. The vain and arrogant Lajos meets his fate when entering the temple of mirrors, house of seven-armed god Struga. Lajos breaks the mirror which reveals his ugly inner self and is damned to live in the presence of vengeful Struga.


Story Title: Diary of Horror! - text story
Features:The Story Behind the Cover
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: The Ghost's Curse! - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Charles Nicholas
Inks:Charles Nicholas ?
Letters:typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Jarod Parks [Jarod Parker]; Mona Travis
Synopsis:Jarod Parks is secretary to successful classic dancer Mona Travis. Since Parks has gambling debts, he murders Mona and forges her last will. The dancer’s ghost, however, pesters Parks with haunting threats of his punishment after death. When Parks finally dies, he rots away in his grave fully conscious.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Captain Video


Story Title: The Phantom of Philip Hawks - comic story
Pages:6
Letters:typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Young lovers John Allen and Mary Kane set sail for their honeymoon voyage on their own ship, but they have been cursed by John’s rival, Philip. The jealous man wanted to have fair Mary for himself. Philip Hawks’ ghost commandeers the boat and they all perish at sea.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:?; ? (photograph)
Inks:?; ? (photograph)
Letters:?; typeset
Characters:Uncle Bernie


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