Web of Mystery #1

(February 1951)

There's no such animal, he cried! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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The Case of the Beckoning Mummy (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mike Sekowsky ?; Art Peddy ?

Inks

Vince Alascia ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dr. Dembrow; King Kali-Dahn (apparition); Dr. Damon Knight; Karen Knight

Synopsis

Archeologist Damon Knight excavates an ancient egypt tomb. He is warned by the ghost of the 8,000 years old mummy of Kali-Dahn not to desecrate his burial chamber. As Knight continues, he gets lured into the tomb and has to take the mummy's place.

Reprints

• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#3 (April 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v8#2 (April 1974)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#4 (October 1976)
• in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies (Yoe Books, 2017 series) (June 2017)

Keywords

Egypt; hieroglyphics; hotel; mummies; sarcophagus; tomb

True Creepy Tales #1 (Table of Contents: 3)

True Creepy Tales / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Uncle Ben; Jack Smith; Ms. Smith

Synopsis

"We may laugh at the thought of ghosts. That's what the young Smiths, who were spending their honeymoon in Massachusetts, did".
As the couple goes on a canoe trip at night, they encounter an indian ghost canoe and get capsized. They manage to swim to safety though.

Venom of the Vampires (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Martin Thall

Inks

Martin Thall ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Elizabeth Brown; Johnny Pierce; Count Vacrini

Synopsis

A plane goes down in Honduras. The pilot, a young woman and Count Vacrini survive and make their way to the jungle. They encounter bloodsucking bats and an indian tribe. Vacrini turns out to be a necromancer and wounds the indian chief. He is killed for that, but returns as a fullgrown vampire. The pilot locks him inside a cave, where Vacrini is eaten alive by small vampire bats. Pilot and girl marry.

Reprints

• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#4 (June 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#2 (March 1974) [retitled]
which is reprinted
• in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#3 (October 1979), #v5#3 [4] (March 1982)
• in Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (Dennis Druktenis, 2009 series) #2 (2010)

Keywords

Honduras; plane crash; vampires

True Creepy Tales #2 (Table of Contents: 5)

True Creepy Tales / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Synopsis

"There is a belief among the village people of Yorkshire, England, that the soul always returns to the body once in twenty-four hours until after the funeral..."
A hunter gives a lift to a taciturn traveller. On inquiring about his passenger later on, he learns that the man died a day ago.

Keywords

Yorkshire

Indexer Notes

Feature continues as True Tales of Unexplained Mystery in Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #2 (April 1951).

The Lamenting Voice of the Bell (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6.66 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Johann Mier; Schnabel; Hans Walden

Synopsis

The deformed hunchback Hans Walden is a masterful bell-caster. His bells sound like the voices of angels - because he melts human bodies in the boiling cauldron as well. After manufacturing an old friend into a new bell, Walden is haunted by the ghostly tolling of the bell. He breaks down and confesses.

Reprints

• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#5 (August 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#2 (May 1976)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v10#[1] (January 1979)

Keywords

Germany

Sur-Prize Contest (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

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Model For a Madman (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

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

• in The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #9 (March 1952)

Ghost Ship of the Caribbean (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Kenneth Rice

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Anne Johnson; Bill Johnson; Captain Phineas Johnson (ghost); Black Tom Lord (ghost)

Synopsis

A young couple steer their boat into a hurricane and end up on a pirate ghost ship. The crew want to murder them, but they are protected by the captain's ghost, who turns out to be the man's great grandfather.

Reprints

• in Golden Comics (Univers Comics, 2009 series) #4
• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#4 (June 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#1 (January 1978)

Keywords

ghosts; pirates; skeletons; treasure

Goose? Or Nest? (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

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