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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Charlton
Title: The Thing
Page Count: 36
Genre: Adventure, Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: August 1952
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Country: United States
Engineer Alden Blake is called to Haiti to build a dam. When he ecounters zombie slave laborers, Blake threatens to go public. He is turned into a zombie himself, but manages to take revenge.; Skipper Steve Payne makes a living cruising the waters off the Chinese coast. After saving the life of a man called Ying Ko, Payne himself gets rescued years later by the now turned "pirate king" Ying Ko.; Ray Bruce withhelds heart pills from his business partner Howard Croft, thus killing him slowly. But Croft's ghost returns to haunt his former associate.; A sculptor is crushed to death by one of his statues. But his blood (and ghost) are absorbed by the sandstone. The statue comes alive and pursues his criminal business partners.; Identical twins Peter and Paul Leverett are going to meet again after a ten-year separation. A rival steps in and kills Paul, sending Peter into (by twin-magic) a coma and summoning the local sheriff. Investigation of Peter's coma leads to the detection of Paul's murder.; Account of phantom hounds of Dartmoor, allegedly the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles".; Account of floating lights phenomena predicting deaths.