(May 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Unity Publishing Corp.
- Brand:
- Ace
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; Newsprint; Ongoing Series
Prophecy of the Black Dream
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ken Rice
- Inks:
- Ken Rice
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- In Paris, art painter Dulaq finds magical paints. Everything he paints becomes reality. So he disposes comfortably of his rival and his landlady. Too bad that the landlady was a witch who put a curse on him. He will be killed by a cat. One morning Dulaq awakens and sees with horror what he has painted in his sleep: he is torn to shreds by a tiger.
True Tales of the Supernatural #39
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- "A strange tale of the supernatural and mystic occurred forty years ago in a small New England town..."
A young couple encounters a pair of ghostly sisters in a haunted house.
Horde of the Faceless
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Mike Sekowsky ?; Bill Walton ?
- Inks:
- Mario Rizzi ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Henry Keefe considers suicide because he lost his right arm in an accident. He is approached by the legion of "the faceless ones", a dark cult. They restore his arm and want a book of magic in exchange. Keefe finds out that the faceless one are dead criminals who yearn to come back into life. Clasping the book, Keefe jumps to his death.
True Tales of the Supernatural #40
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- "The legend told to this day in a small country of Europe, is based on a true incident dating back almost one hundred years..."
Testing his racehorse, Baron Tistle tramples a peasant to death. In turn, the Baron is trampled to death at the races when the peasant's ghost frightens the Baron's horse.
Lair of the Spidery Fiend
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Beck
- Inks:
- George Klein ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- In occupied post-war Germany the American soldier Dave Curtis encounters a spider-monster who wishes to devour him. The "spider witch" poses as a beautiful woman who drags Curtis into her lair. With the help of the witch's deceased husband Curtis can overcome all evil.
Death Wrote the Ending
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- In the Montmartre - "a shabby section of Paris" - a first-person narrator has an encounter with Death, who takes the body of his girlfriend to live in. The narrator himself has to function as Death's helper. People in his vicinity die suddenly. When he shoots Death, his girlfriend lies dying before him. The narrator will swing on the gallows for that.
Calling All Ghouls
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Chic Stone
- Inks:
- Chic Stone
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Surgeon Grant Bascom is kidnapped by his evil uncle who revives killers in his basement to send them out into the world to do his bidding. Bascom can daze these monsters with chloroform. They turn against their creator.
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Table of Contents
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1.
Prophecy of the Black Dream
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2.
True Tales of the Supernatural #39
True Tales of the Supernatural -
3.
Horde of the Faceless
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True Tales of the Supernatural #40
True Tales of the Supernatural -
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Lair of the Spidery Fiend
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6.
Death Wrote the Ending
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7.
Calling All Ghouls
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