Ripley's Believe It or Not! #85 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Mel Crawford; inks: Mel Crawford; colors: Mel Crawford	Herbert Headley; ghostly hand of Kenneth Eastland
2	The Dead Hand	comic story	7	script: Paul S. Newman; pencils: George Roussos; inks: George Roussos	Herbert Headley; Kenneth Eastland; Joan Eastland; Harold Eastland; Justice Marlow
3	Phantoms in the Mirror	comic story	5	pencils: John Celardo; inks: John Celardo	Reginald Keating (poet); Professor Albert Jenkins; Reginald's sweetheart; Reginald's sweetheart's husband
4	The Tearful Ghost	text story	1	pencils: Frank Bolle; inks: Frank Bolle	Japhet Wadderburn; Dona Mercedes; Huldy Craddock
5	The Fatal Plunge	comic story	6	pencils: Frank Bolle; inks: Frank Bolle	Fred Holmes; innkeeper; Michael Langley; farmer
6	Buried Treasure	comic story	3	pencils: Frank Bolle; inks: Frank Bolle	Brian Tyler (archeologist); Thalun (his guide); old woman (the Guardian Spirit)
7	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Whitman	See the GCD record for identification notes.

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