Doomsday #4

Published
August 1972
Page count
52
Cover price
0.25 AUD
Colour
Black & white
Size
Magazine size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
This Publication is Rated M for the Mature Reader
 
This Publication is Rated M for the Mature Reader

Credits

Editing
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Show/hide Cover No title recorded Cover, 1 page

"The Ju Ju Wishing Doll. Dripping Terror. The Dead Lover Returns."

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense

Credits

Art
, photographer
Show/hide 1. The Dead Lover Returns! Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-Suspense

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Roy Ald, original editor
 
Al Jetter, original Art Editor
Management
Will Lieberson, original Executive Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #4 (May 1952)
The Dead Lover returns!

Synopsis

Ted Femur dies in a boating accident, but pleads with the "high court of the dead" to return to the world of the living to look for the love of his life. He finds the girl who was meant for him. She doesn't see him as a rotting corpse and is willing to even marry him. But there's a catch…

Show/hide 2. The Flaming Witness Comic story, 6 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense

Credits

Art
Maurice Gutwirth, line art
 
Maurice Gutwirth , inker
Editing
Ginny Provisiero, editor [as V.A. Provisiero]
 
Al Jetter, original Art Director
Management
Will Lieberson, original Executive Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Strange Stories From Another World (Fawcett, 1952 series) #5 (February 1953)
The flaming Witness
Also printed
Australia
Super Giant (KG Murray, 1974 series) #15 ([May 1975?])
The Flaming Witness

Synopsis

Karl Malden kills his business partner, Steve Gorm, by pushing him into a steel furnace. Gorm's fiery ghost returns to haunt the murderer.

Show/hide 3. Mardu's Masterpiece Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-Suspense
Characters
The Thing (host)

Credits

Art
Bob Forgione, line art [signed]
Editing
Al Fago, editor [as Alfred V. Fago]

Reprint history

First print
United States
The Thing (Charlton, 1952 series) #9 (July 1953)
Mardu's Masterpiece
Show/hide 4. The Man Who Lost His Body Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-Suspense

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Bob Powell, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Roy Ald, original editor
 
Al Jetter, original Art Editor
Management
Will Lieberson, original Executive Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #4 (May 1952)
The Man who lost his Body

Synopsis

Baseball player Rick Demoine encounters the ghosts of former baseball heroes and steals their special abilities from them. Incorporating more and more ghostly traits, Rick Demoine himself turns into a spectral being.

Show/hide 5. The Juju Wishing Doll Comic story, 5 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Characters
Dr. Death (host)

Credits

Editing
Ginny Provisiero, original editor [as V.A. Provisiero]
Management
Will Lieberson, original Executive Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #10 (June 1953)
The Juju Wishing Doll

Synopsis

A pair of lovers on Haiti come into possession of a voodoo doll. Their careless handling of the powerful artefact will be their doom.

Notes

The story is introduced by an (unnamed) Dr. Death, the horror-host from This Magazine is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series).

Show/hide 6. Dripping Terror Comic story, 5 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-suspense
Characters
The Mummy (host)

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Tony Cataldo , line art
Text
Charlotte Jetter, letterer
Editing
Ginny Provisiero, original editor [as V.A. Provisiero]
 
Al Jetter, original Art Director
Management
Will Lieberson, original Executive Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Beware! Terror Tales (Fawcett, 1952 series) #7 (May 1953)
Dripping Terror

Synopsis

Captain Enoch Claughton kills the native girl Mauna for a bag of pearls. He is haunted by her ghostly apparition for decades and finally claimed to join her in death.

Notes

Anthony Cataldo is rumored to have worked for Fawcett’s "Whiz Comics" in the early 50s (drawing the “Golden Arrow” feature). A bottle on the table in the splash wears the label “AC”.

Show/hide 7. Family Mixup Comic story, 5 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror-Suspense
Characters
The Thing (host)

Credits

Art
Steve Ditko, line art
Text
Charlotte Jetter, letterer
Editing
Al Fago, editor [as Al Fago Studios]

Reprint history

First print
United States
The Thing (Charlton, 1952 series) #15 (July-August 1954)
Family Mixup
Also printed
United States
Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
Family Mixup
Show/hide 8. Scientific Publications [We've written a book about your car] Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Status

This issue includes help from

  • Spiros Xenos
  • Mark Muller

AusReprints ID

  • 2722

Entry created

  • 27/08/2005

Cover added

  • 03/05/2018

Index completed

  • 21/04/2014

Last updated

  • 25/09/2019