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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Volume 2 {Terror Within}                         Trade Paperback
Featuring three complete Kolchak stories: “Devil in the Details”, “Pain Most Human”, & “Pain without Tears”… all presented in Full Color.
Cover by: Don Kramer

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974 – 1975 season. Kolchak: The Night Stalker was created by Jeff Rice. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter – Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin – who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures. The series was preceded by two television movies, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). Although the series lasted only a single season, it garnered a world-wide fan following and is considered a cult classic in horror television. Subsequent novels and comic books later followed. And it later influenced the creation of the X-Files, which is in the same vein as Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

In 2002, Moonstone began publishing Prestige Format one-shots that pick up where the television show left off in 1975. Moonstone continues the creepy horror anthology that is: “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” in various comic book related projects. Cue the “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” intro theme music and be prepared to get totally spooked out… with three complete Kolchak stories: “Devil in the Details”, “Pain Most Human”, and “Pain without Tears”… all presented in Full Color! Awesome!!

Before the X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, TV’s first paranormal investigator (played with style and pinache by Darren McGavin)! This volume collects the sold out stories: “Devil in the Details”, “Pain Most Human”, and “Pain without Tears”. Kolchak has three times the usual trouble in store for him! Stay with him as he discovers that there is more than one way terror can strike from within. In ” Devil in the Details”, Carl is sent to investigate the disappearance of business owner Chester Fredersen. On the surface it looks like Chester took off with the company’s loot while his partner and brother is dying. Kolchak tumbles headlong into a hi-tech horror story, as other members of the Fredersen family begin to vanish. Next in “Pain Most Human”, Seems an Air Force base in Upstate New York’s engaged in a little cover-up, so our man Carl Kolchak hightails it cross-country to get the story first-hand. And finally in “Pain without Tears”, Kolchak finds himself on death’s door in defense of a beautiful woman with strange powers. What is her secret, and why are so many willing to KILL to control it?

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Volume 2 – Terror Within contains:Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Devil in the Details (2003)
Writer: Stefan Petrucha
Artist: Trevor Von Eeden
Colorists: Ken Wolak & Dawn Groszewski
Letterer: Vince Sneed
Editors: Mark Dawidziak, Joe Gentile & Garrett Anderson

On the surface, this one looks like an open and shut case of embezzlement, as Chester Fredesen takes off with his company’s loot while his brother (and business partner) Barry lies dying in a hospital bed. Soon, other members of the family begin to vanish, and Barry’s disease goes into an impossible state of remission, as Kolchak tumbles headlong into a hi-tech horror story. Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Devil in the Details finds the intrepid reporter for the Independent News Service investigating the disappearance of Chester Fredersen, millionaire co-founder of Byte-by-Byte, Inc., a computer firm in Santa Clara, California. You’re thinking it’s a kidnapping, right? Nope. Fredersen disappeared in the literal sense, leaving behind his clothes – in the shape of their former occupant. Things get more complicated when other members of Fredersen’s family start disappearing…

Kolchak investigates the disappearance of businessman Chester Fredersen, who has apparently embezzled his company’s profits and then run off, leaving his brother and business partner, Barry, in hospital dying of Lou Gherig’s Disease. Before he vanished, Chester called his wife from work at the Byte-by-Byte corporation, screaming that he was literally being eaten away. After Diana Fredersen also dissolves into nothing while on a date with Kolchak, Barry’s condition goes into an impossible state of remission. Kolchak beleives that the key lies in a bottle of impossibly-small robots…
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Pain Most Human (2003)
Writer: C.J. Henderson
Artists: Greg Scott, Trevor Pallot, John Statema & Dave Ulanski
Colorist: Andre Maitland
Letterer:  Vince Sneed
Editors: Mark Dawidziak & Joe Gentile

Everyone – including his editor – thinks he’s crazy. Now, the man who has encountered vampires, zombies, and werewolves wants to cover a “straight” story, but instead, stumbles onto a military cover-up that hides a secret every bit as far-fetched as anything he’s written before. This issue really cranks up the noir, as it dives deep into Kolchak’s very soul. He begged Tony for a nice, normal lead, and that’s what he got. Seems an Air Force base in upstate New York’s engaged in a little cover up, so our man Carl Kolchak high tails it cross country in a fresh pressed suit and a smile on his face. Using his singular reporting skills, and his annoying interpersonal skills, he gets all the answers all right. Too bad these answers may send him straight to an insane asylum. How cruel is Man? Wanna find out? Carl did and would love to lay it out for you. Right here. Right now.

Tired of covering stories that involve monsters and demons, Kolchak asks Tony for a simpler, more normal assignment. His editor sends him to Camerton, N.Y., to find out just what it was that fell out of the sky a few weeks ago; although initial reports stated that the object was a crashed U.F.O., the story was subsequently retracted by the nearby army base, which then issued an announcement that one of their experimental jet planes had crashed. With the diverting assistance of local waitress Kathy Phlinsen, Carl’s investigations lead him to check out the nearby Lupoff Foundation, a factory complex that manufactures hi-tech computer chips. That night, Kolchak decides to sneak into the army base, only to discover that visitors from outer space are not the real monsters in this case…
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Pain without Tears (2004)
Writer: C.J. Henderson
Artist: Dennis Calero
Letterer: Terri Boyle
Editor: C.J. Henderson

Kolchak finds himself on death’s door in defense of a beautiful woman with strange powers. Rekindling a part of him he thought extinguished, she haunts every thought his mind can hold. What is her secret, and why are so many willing to Kill to control it? And how will Carl survive the twin bullet shots to his body and soul?

Depressed at how his life has become nothing but a succession of frightening encounters with vampires, werewolves and energy beasts, and faced with the prospect of yet more grisly death and horror, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for a bar and proceeds to drink himself into oblivion. During his liquid breakfast, Carl encounters a young Chinese girl, Yitt Feng, who encourages him to unburden his troubles on her; after pouring out his life story to the attentive and sympathetic girl, Carl is surprised to find himself feeling much better. But this happiness is short-lived upon the arrival of two groups of men – a trio of sinister corporate ‘Men in Black’ and two Asian thugs – who try to take the Chinese girl away by force. While Kolchak’s attempts to protect Yitt only result in him being beaten up, Yitt somehow manages to evade her pursuers, and she disappears into the night. Realising that he has fallen for the girl, Kolchak turns to Tony Vincenzo for help in finding Yitt; using the newspaper’s resources he eventually tracks the girl to a nunnery. Here, Carl learns from the mother superior that Yitt is an empath, capable of healing people by absorbing their pain into herself. Reunited with Yitt, Carl encourages her to come away with him; but as they leave the convent but they are once again faced with the trio of Men in Black – and Carl is promptly shot dead…
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Trade Paperback reprints/collects from Moonstone Books:
Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Devil in the Details (2003)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Pain Most Human (2003)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Pain without Tears (2004)

Trade Paperback is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Moonstone Books
Publication Date: 2006
Format: FC, 150 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.5″
ISBN-10: 1933076100
ISBN-13: 9781933076102

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is New & Unread.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Kolchak The Night Stalker and/or Horror collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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