The Beyond
#9
(March 1952)
Ace Magazines,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ace Magazines Inc.
- Brand
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Ace
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indexed from a scan from http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in PS Artbooks Softee: The Beyond (PS Artbooks, 2021 series) #2 (February 2022)
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Horror Blown in Glass
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In Prague, glass blowing apprentice Anton wants to win the heart of the snobbish Maria. He obtains the finest quartz (from an unhallowed graveyard!) and blows a masterpiece, a satyr's head. Anton also goes insane in the process. Seeing the devilish satyr in everyone, he goes on a killing spree. He dies falling into a vat with boiling glass.
- Reprints
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in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #35 (June 2018)
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Indexer Notes
Cover story.
True Tales of the Supernatural #17
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
- Synopsis
- "In the year 1926, John Buxton, a struggling young artist, was on a holiday trip in New England..."
At the local museum Buxton finds a portrait of a local painter looking exactly like him. He even painted the same motives.
On the Other Side of Death's Door
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Dick Manson has a horrible car accident, but remains unhurt. He is stalked by a mysterious woman who wants to drag him into the afterlife. The woman is death, and Manson struggles through a delirium for his life. Manson manages to hold on to life, because the love of his fiancées protects him. For the time being...
True Tales of the Supernatural #18
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- "In 1912, one of the most acclaimed actresses of the european stage was Emily Sargent..."
She dies in a car crash the day before performing. The performance proceeds though, because her ghost goes on stage.
Indexer Notes
This twist has been applied several times already...
The Vampire of the Opera
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In the basement of the Paris opera house, the vampire/diva Madame Pourette comes alive again. Posing as her own niece, she starts to sing again (and suck blood when the show's over). Only the old concierge Pepe knows the truth and can finally impale her and send Madame to her final rest again.
Model for a Madman
text story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- A mad painter kills women to portrait their horror on canvas. His latest victim outwits him, sets fire to his place and escapes.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #1 (February 1951)
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The Face in the Mirror
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Walter Fontane, a struggling ambitious writer, is invited by a mysterious "keeper of the scripts" called Ishmael to a world of literature masterpieces. Fontane does not want to pay the price and tries to steal his finished manuscript. Stepping into the street, Fontane is run down by a truck and killed instantly.
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
Horror Blown in Glass
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True Tales of the Supernatural #17
True Tales of the Supernatural -
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On the Other Side of Death's Door
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True Tales of the Supernatural #18
True Tales of the Supernatural -
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The Vampire of the Opera
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6.
Model for a Madman
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7.
The Face in the Mirror
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
- Steven G. Willis
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