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Cover: Maurice Whitman
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Ghost Comics #1

Jan 1951 · Fiction House · 0.10 USD
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Ghost Comics #1 is an anthology featuring multiple supernatural horror stories. "The Banshee Bells" tells of a young girl who encounters ghostly spirits and hears the voices of the dead warning her of a crime—a judge's daughter has been murdered, and the spirits reveal her father was responsible. "Flee the Phantoms" follows a couple whose car mysteriously races out of control on a dark road, seemingly driven by supernatural forces, as they attempt to escape phantom entities pursuing them. The issue also includes "The Ghost Gallery" segment and a crime story involving mobsters and a character named Jerry Dingle, with supernatural elements weaving through the narratives to create an evening of ghostly and criminal horror tales.

Contains 4 stories
The Banshee Bells
8 pp · Crime, Horror-Suspense

When a chain gang prisoner named Lem Daniels is driven to violence by what he believes is the ghostly voice of his executed brother Jud, he's pulled into a twisted web of vengeance and murder across the Louisiana bayou. Haunted by commands from beyond the grave, Lem finds himself powerless to resist—until the spirits of those his brother wronged demand a reckoning of their own. Drew Murdoch illustrates this tale of spectral justice in "The Banshee Bells," where the dead refuse to let the living forget their debts.

Phantoms from the Sea
6 pp · Horror-Suspense, War

Lieutenant Phil Strong requests a transfer after clashing with his commanding officer, only to find himself aboard the carrier Lexington when it comes under sudden enemy attack from both submarine and air forces. As the ship is crippled and burning, Strong flies combat missions against enemy bombers while battling his own doubts—but his encounter with the old man's ghost and the phantom ship that rescues him forces him to reckon with what duty really means. A haunting wartime tale where duty and redemption become one.

Flee the Phantoms
6 pp · Horror-Suspense

A nighttime car crash leaves a young man injured and desperate for help, only to find himself aboard a mysterious bus filled with recently deceased passengers—each bearing their own tragic story. As he realizes the horrifying truth about his fellow travelers and their destination, he must fight to escape before the bus claims another soul. A chilling tale of fate and second chances from the pages of Ghost Comics.

The Parting
8 pp · Horror-Suspense

Russell Burke wants to put his criminal past behind him—literally smashing the ventriloquist dummy that's been his dark partner in crime for years—as he prepares to marry into wealth and respectability. But the dummy's ghostly voice won't let him forget the hold-ups, the murders, and the calculated drowning that set him on the path to fortune. When Burke destroys his unwanted accomplice and walks down the aisle, the past refuses to stay buried, and the consequences of his sins come calling at the altar itself.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $277
CGC 9.2 · 2 in census $6,093*
CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $4,228*
CGC 8.5 · 3 in census $2,952*
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $2,291
CGC 7.5 · 4 in census $1,858*
CGC 7.0 · 6 in census $1,544*
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CGC 6.5 · 6 in census $1,296*
CGC 6.0 · 3 in census $1,121*
CGC 5.5 · 9 in census $942*
CGC 5.0 · 14 in census $895*
CGC 4.5 · 14 in census $765*
CGC 4.0 · 9 in census $641
CGC 3.5 · 9 in census $592*
CGC 3.0 · 6 in census $524
CGC 2.5 · 5 in census $435
CGC 2.0 · 2 in census $361*
CGC 1.5 · 2 in census $277*
CGC 1.0 · 2 in census $225
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Full credits

artist, inker Iger Studios
artist, inker Rafael Astarita
cover pencils, inks Maurice Whitman

Reprints

↩ Reprints Jumbo Comics #62 (1944), Jumbo Comics #72 (1945), Jumbo Comics #74 (1945), Wings Comics #72 (1946)

Reprinted in Wings Comics #[104] (1951), Jungle Comics #30 (1952), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #11 (2015), Crypt of Horror #32 (2017), Crypt of Horror #33 (2017), Classic Pulp: Ghosts #[nn] (2021), Classic Pulp #1 (2021), Ghost Comics #1, Gwandanaland Comics #479

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