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Publisher: Charlton

Title: The Thing
Issue: 5
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: October-November 1952
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Alfred V. Fago

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Thing #5
Owner: GA Collectibles

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Story Title: The Thing - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Lou Morales (signed)
Inks:Lou Morales
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: The Thing Presents - table of contents
Pages:1
Pencils:Lou Morales (signed)
Inks:Lou Morales
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: Curse of Karnak - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Bob Forgione (signed)
Inks:Bob Forgione
Letters:typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Professor Ambrose carelessly revives the mummy of King Mentu and sets free a plague of Egyptian gods running amok in the excavation camp.


Story Title: Harmony of Horror - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Bob Forgione (signed)
Inks:Bob Forgione
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Jim Shervin kills Bruno Augustin, the rival for his love of the beautiful Cleo. The pianist's ghost comes back from the dead and haunts his murderer by moving objects around via acoustical vibrations.


Story Title: The Frustrated Ghost - text story
Pages:2
Letters:Typeset
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Captain Isaac Humboldt dies in a steamship crash on the Mississippi. His ghostly apparition appears many miles away to his mother and his brother.


Story Title: Murderers' Row - comic story
Pages:9
Pencils:Tex Blaisdell
Inks:Tex Blaisdell
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Strange things happen in and around Professor Caglio's wax exhibition of murderers through history. Can Elsa and boyfriend Terry escape when trapped in the storage room?


Story Title: The Tavern of Terror - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Collier (signed)
Inks:Collier
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Young man spends the night in an inn haunted by an old female vampire. The fiend appears and warns him to stay, but the man won't listen and has to pay for his stubbornness with his life.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Things You Should Know
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Lou Morales (signed)
Inks:Lou Morales
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Three panels informing about the habits of banshees.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Synopsis:Ad for bargains from U. S. Diamond House on back cover.


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