The Purple Claw #2

(March 1953)

The Web of Horror (Table of Contents)

Purple Claw / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Ben Brown (signed)

Inks:

David Gantz (signed)

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Dr. Jonathan Weir; The Purple Claw; Dr. Italo Schiasi (death); Enzo (death); Baron Latro (death); Countess Arachni (first appearance)

Synopsis:

Dr. Jonathan Weir, the possessor of the Purple Claw, travels to the Valley of Horror in answer to a request from his friend Dr. Italo Schiasi. Unfortunately, Dr. Schiasi is already dead at the hands of a giant spider. Dr. Weir is also caught in a giant spider's web but he escapes with the aid of the Purple Claw. He is determined to avenge his friend's death and accuses Baron Latro of killing him. The Countess Arachni stops Baron Latro from stabbing Dr. Weir because she finds him attractive. When mountain birds distract Dr. Weir (they seem to think that the Countess is their natural prey) the Countess manages to steal the Purple Claw from him. Later when he travels to her castle he is caught in a web and unable to defend himself. He passes out but Countess Arachni rescues him by killing Baron Latro in his spider form and taking Dr. Weir to her castle. When he wakes up he tries to get the Purple Claw back but the Countess throws it into the moat. She spins a web around him but he manages to fall out a window and recover the Purple Claw floating in the water. He uses it to defeat the spiders and Countess Arachni.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #10 (April 1954)
• in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #5 (Summer 1992)
• in Purple Claw Mysteries (AC, 1994 series) #1 (1994) [in black and white; original in color]

The Killer In the Snow (Table of Contents)

Purple Claw / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Ben Brown (signed)

Inks:

David Gantz (signed)

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A skiing party is confronted with a killer snowman - avenging his murder years ago. One by one the wrongdoers meet their icy fate. Dr. Jonathan Weir aka "The Purple Claw" can only save himself.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #10 (April 1954)

The Serpent Strikes (Table of Contents)

Purple Claw / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Ben Brown (signed)

Inks:

David Gantz (signed)

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Dr. Jonathan Weir battles Leera, a weresnake woman preying upon a befriended couple.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #10 (April 1954)
• in FemForce (AC, 1985 series) #42 (1991)

Sparks of Life (Table of Contents)

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chas. Kuhn

Pencils:

Chas. Kuhn

Inks:

Chas. Kuhn

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

6 panels: "The Good Old Days," "Jobs We'd Love" et al.

Brief Stop at Lambeau (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Parisian killer Henri Roche awakes in limbo and meets the cursed hangman of the afterworld - who will hang him again.

U.S. Marines in the Boxer Rebellion (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

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Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Synopsis:

Historical account of US intervention in China, summer 1900. Filler page.