Argus ← Live listings
Cover of Amazing Ghost Stories #16
Photo: listing on shortboxed

CATALOG RECORD

Amazing Ghost Stories #16

St. John · Series began 1954 · February 1955

Dates

Cover date
February 1955
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Matt Baker, Carmine Infantino, George Tuska, Dan Barry, George Roussos, Everett Kinstler, Marvin Steininks: Joe Kubert, George Tuska, John Giunta, Sy Barry, George Roussos, Everett Kinstler, Marvin Steinletters: Ben Odascript: Archer St. John

Stories

  • The Widow's Lover · 6 pages

    A former executioner beheads those he feels need beheading, and is allowed to be his own executioner.

  • The Tentacles of Death · 6 pages

    Dr. Mark Savant heads to Genero where the inhabitants are practicing human sacrifice. There he finds a horrible monster called an Octeel.

  • Dr. Osborne's Secret Weapon · 2 pages

    A future scientist discovers a way to defeat the invading Sirians by disabling atomic energy.

  • The Bloody Sword · 7 pages

    Robert MacCloran returns to his ancestral home to claim his birthright, but his evil uncle has other plans.

  • The Portrait of Death · 7 pages

    Gregory Harborough finds a painting of himself labelled "Portrait of Death" and is determined to find the artist.

  • The Finger of Fate · 1 pages

    Dr. Gladys Cross saves the finger of a holyman from being chopped off and gets a reward in return.

  • Graveyard in the Antarctic · 1 pages

    G. Murray Levick, surgeon with Captain Robert Scott, finds a thousands of dead and dying seals in the Antarctic.

Reprinted in

Haunted Love (2016), PS Artbooks Softee: Amazing Ghost Stories - Monster (2020)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).