The Beyond #10

(April 1952)

Leopard Girl's Dread Domain (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Chic Stone

Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

horror; jungle

Synopsis:

Explorers in the Congo jungle encounter white jungle girl Felia. She commands a tribe of cat people and can change into a leopard herself. When explorer Lawton kills her idol chief, Felia loses her powers and is crushed to death by the falling idol.

True Tales of the Supernatural #19 (Table of Contents)

True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

occult; fact

Synopsis:

"In the year 1623, a bold highwayman named Roger Pike was victimizing rich travelers..."
Pike is caught and hanged, but his ghost still rides along King's Highway in London.

Release From Satan's Scourge (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Lou Cameron

Inks:

Lou Cameron

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

American film set location scout Gil Jenkins visits an english castle. He discovers a "Book of Demons" and accidentally releases them. By conjuring the Black Duke, who wrote the book, the minions of Satan are again caught and confined in the book.

Indexer Notes

Inks are probably by Rocco Mastroserio. They worked as a team in this phase of Ace horror comic books.

True Tales of the Supernatural #20 (Table of Contents)

True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Content Information

Genre:

occult; fact

Synopsis:

"Curses are strange things, and tales have been told of odd incidents [...] of curses coming true..."
A princess envies her sister for her necklace. She kills her and wears it. The necklace (cursed by the dying woman) strangulates the murderess.

Prisoners in a Lost World (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6.66 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

Two explorers discover the underground kingdom of Xandia, hidden in the Himalayas. They are imprisoned and have to fight wild beasts. Only one of them can escape back to western civilization.

Reprinted:

• in Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #26 (October 1955)

Indexer Notes

Bottom of last page has statement of ownership naming naming A. A. Wyn as publisher and Rose Wyn as managing editor.

Land of Dolls (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A mystery writer is wrecking his brain for a "good weird fantasy story". He takes the elevator to get new cigarettes and is transported to an underground land of living dolls: "This is where damaged dolls go when they are no longer loved". They believe him to be their doll maker. The editor can bring them to the real doll maker, who opened up his shop down the hall from the publisher's.

Indexer Notes

Meta-level selfreferential story.

The Spell of the Hanging Tree (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Molno

Inks:

Vince Alascia ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A violin, made out of the wood of a hanging tree, has strange powers. The owner can play like a maestro, but will transform into a werewolf-like beast as well. The violin is destroyed and all magic ends.