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Eerie #4

Avon · Series began 1951 · December-January 1951-52

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Dates

Cover date: December-January 1951-52
On sale: August 30, 1951
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Wally Wood, Sid Check, Gene Fawcette, Jim McLaughlininks: Wally Wood, Sid Check, Gene Fawcette, Jim McLaughlinletters: Wally Wood

Stories

Cremation of Evil · 7 pages
Richard Sinclair wishes his wife would come back from the dead, but he didn't know she would come back evil. After she kills the maid and a detective, she tries to kill her husband. During the scuffle, some candles are overturned and she catches fire burning up like funeral pyre.
The Ship of Death! · 8 pages
Dick Cartwright inherits a house and a model ship of "The Falcon". His ancestor had build the original ship and purposefully caused the crew to die by depleting them of rations so he can collect the insurance. The sailors are doomed to live as figurines on the ship until the last of the Cartwrights die. The undead captain confronts Dick. When his wife hears a scream she finds him dead. He is now a figurine alongside the doomed crew on the model ship.
The Puppet Pulls the Strings · 7 pages
Ventriloquist Dorian Grant invents a life-sized mechanical puppet called Bruno. Bruno, however, seems to develop a mind of his own and kills Grant’s former employer Vale when he visits the duo to hire them. Afterwards Dorian, in a puppet like trance, walks into traffic and gets killed when he's hit by a car. Did he go mad when he saw Bruno come to life, or was Bruno controlling him like he was the puppet?
The House of Skulls · 1 pages
A woman asks a crone to help her contact her dead lover in the afterlife via an ancient crystal ball. The reason is because her lover had stashed loot before he was shot and she wanted to know where it was. She sees her former lover but as he is in death, a rotted husk living in a house made of bones. She then sees fire and realizes he's in hell.
Phantoms of Reality · 7 pages
Wall Street clerk Charlie Walton has a night of adventure in the fourth dimension. His friend Derek takes him there to remove a tyrannical king from his throne. It seems Derek is actually Alexandre and is originally from that dimension but was trapped in our dimension. Now he is able to return home to become the rightful new king.

Reprinted in

Black Magic Comics (1952), Vampiress (2025)