Voodoo (1952 Ajax/Farrell) comic books 1953
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Issue #5
$1,200.00
View scans- Paper: Off white to white
- Label #2039114001
Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. Three men spend the night in a haunted lighthouse. A wife's hatred of her husband's undertaking job drives her murderously insane. A woman poisons her lover's wife, resulting in madness and revenge from the beyond the grave. Corpses of the Jury; Death Light?; Man-Killer; Ghoul for a Day; The Spiteful Spirit. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #7
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split, front cover held on with tape.
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Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. A man discovers a man-eating flower on a desert island and uses it to commit murder. Sue finds an old painting in an antique store that looks eerily like her, and it begins to exert a strange hold over her. A plague of locusts turns out to have alien origins. Devil Flower; Voodoo Canvas; Dealing with the Devil; Deadly Timing!; Goodbye...World! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #10
- INCOMPLETE. Half of first page missing, affects art and story. Heavy interior oxidation with some spine splitting to wraps as well as cover.
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Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. A comic-book writer devises a fiendish revenge against the editor who fired him. After treasure hunters rob a jungle idol, the idol comes to life and pursues them. In colonial India, Colonel Rankin finds a way to get rid of his daughter's suitor for good, or so he thinks. Vanishing Cadavers; Mask of the Monster; Fangs of the Werewolf; Idol of Evil; Tusks of Terror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #12
- Restored (see item notes)
- RESTORATION. Color touch, tear seals, spine split seal, re-glossed.
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- 4" cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Writing on interior cover.
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Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. A dying man makes an unholy pact involving his brain and a mad scientist. A look at the use of forensic science in 1950s police work. A man travels to his ancestral Scottish estate and encounters the deadly ghost named The Red Laird. Skulls of Doom; Fear Has a Name; Hangman's Noose; Blood and Barbed Wire; Castle of Fright. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
