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Series
Adventures Into Terror 25
Charlton Tales
Title Profile
Curated Charlton tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- November 1953
- Cover Titles
- The Corpse Comes Back!
The Terrible Trophy!
A Very Grave Matter! - Cover Credits
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Bill Everett pencils attributed
Stories
A Very Grave Matter!
Credits
Bill Benulis pencils signed
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Notes: Ignatius Zekel builds coffins from the cheapest materials and sells them for a huge profit. When he decides buying a house is too expensive, he gets a cheap load of heavy stones to build his own, but the stones have their own history... - Ger A.
The Deadly Horror
Credits
Credits not yet documented
The Terrible Trophy
Credits
Matt Fox pencils signed
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Notes: A blowhard who collects animal heads bores his friends at the club with his stories about how he got the gorilla tattoo on his chest. One of them decides to pay him back by offering him a rare double-headed animal.
The Corpses Come Back!
Credits
Gene Colan pencils signed
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Notes: Three brothers visit the grave of their dead parents and are apalled at the state it is in. But they can't do anything, because they didn't read the fine print on their contract. The ghosts of the parents get the owner of the graveyard to sign a new contract. - Ger A.
The Speed-Up
Credits
Tony DiPreta pencils signed
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Notes: Three comic book artists, working for Ben Clay, publisher of horror books such as Weirdie Comics, Suspense Comics, Ghould Comics and Gore Comics, try to draw more than one page a day, to compete with an artist called Whiz, who can do 12 pages in one day. They force him to tell them how he does that and he shows them how his slave labor system works... up close. - Ger A.
Snakes Alive
Credits
Unknown pencils
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Notes: The members of the Blackton family die one by one from snake bites... but one of them is determined not to be the last one to go. - Ger A.