Eerie, #2

Published: August-September 1951

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Eerie #2

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1 page horror-suspense
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Story 1 1 page
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Contains original art promoting each of the first three stories as well as art of a man being menaced by living trees and demons in a haunted forest at night.

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Inside front cover. Possible Check art per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.

The Thing from the Sea!
Story 2 7 pages horror-suspense
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Eddie Murray is killed by Johnny Smithers and pushed overboard at sea. While the killer courts the girl of the deceased, the dead man trods along the bottom of the ocean home to his honey. Eddie finally arrives in New York and drags Johnny into the water, to have some company in death.

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Art credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. and Roger Hill.

A Honeymoon of Horror!
Story 3 7 pages horror-suspense
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A young newlywed couple is out for a drive when a crash occurs. The bride is killed. The groom overwrought with grief makes a deal with a mysterious "Mr.Prim" to be with his wife again. It turns out that Mr.Prim is the devil himself and that the young groom just made a unholy deal which Mr.Prim intends to collect on.

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The Chamber of Death!

Featuring The Story Behind The Cover

Story 4 2 pages horror-suspense
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A rookie cop is on the beat at the cemetery. He follows a procession of three people down into the bowels of the earth and a sewer system. He sees a woman chained to an evil looking old man and a huge skeletal being with a bone cane. The three walk right up to the gates of hell. The cop recognizes the chained woman as an executed murderess and realizes that her soul is being taken to eternal damnation. He flees in terror and quits the police force.

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Told in first-person. Cover story.

The Stranger in Studio X
Story 5 7 pages horror-suspense
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A mysterious gaunt looking man with dark glasses shows up at a radio station with knowledge of death and disaster before it happens. When the stranger tells DJ Don Creighton that his home burned down and his wife and child are in critical condition, Don rushes from the studio and gets hit by a car. His death having been announced by the stranger; Death himself.

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This appears to be drawn by a combination of artists.

Featuring Do You Know?

Story 6 1 page non-fiction

"The ancient Egyptians conducted their trials..."

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Various facts such as the origin of the term "Justice is Blind" (from ancient Egyptian judges conducting trials in the dark), Cinderella's glass slipper being fur in the original fairy tale, the origin of the word "Wallop" (from Sir John Wallop who thrashed the French in 1514), the origin of the word "Rye" from the song "Coming Through the Rye" (it's a Scottish river), and the expression "Dead as a Herring" (from the fact that Herring die immediately upon being removed from water).

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Nightmare!
Story 7 7 pages spy
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Undercover U.S. agent Andriko Banoff thwarts a plan to ship atom bombs from "totalitarian Eastern ports" into US harbors.

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