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CATALOG RECORD

Weird Terror #5

Comic Media · Series began 1952 · May 1953

Dates

Cover date
May 1953
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Don Heck, Rudy Palais, Pete Morisi, Mannie Banksinks: Don Heck, Rudy Palais, Mannie Banksletters: Ben Oda, Pete Morisi

Stories

  • Full Moon · 7 pages

    Young chemistry student Alex Nome discovers a formula which changes him into a werewolf. After a killing spree he is determined to put a stop to his insanity.

  • Big Screen · 6 pages

    Hugh Carson, inventor, develops a radio machine and gets tuned in to alien signals. He learns of an invasion to earth. Frantically Carson tries to find someone who will believe him.

  • Ghouls, Inc. · 1 pages

    Historical account of the business of "body-snatching", providing anatomy students with corpses.

  • Devil's Hex · 7 pages

    Sandra and Louise are fighting over the same man. Sandra disposes of Louise by destroying a voodoo-sculpture likeness of her. But Louise finds a way to haunt the murderous Sandra.

  • Taboos of Death · 1 pages

    Account of funeral rites all over the world.

  • Cadaver · 6 pages

    The mortician Carl Moreno supplies old spinster Anna Mord with human body parts to humor her cannibalism. And to make him her sole heir to her riches. To speed up things Carl poisons Anna. But Anna just won't stay dead.

Reprinted in

Pre-Code Classics: Weird Terror (2016), Tales from the Tomb (1969), Weird (1966), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010)

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