Web of Mystery #28

(May 1955)

The Haunted Three (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Rudy Palais (signed originally)

Inks:

Rudy Palais (signed originally)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult; crime

Characters:

Retribution (host)

Synopsis:

Three murderers on the run meet their poetic justice.

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• from Four Favorites (Ace Magazines, 1941 series) #22 (March 1946) [Strange are the ways of Fate]

Indexer Notes

Reworked and censored (gun and body removed, flames from second body removed).

Curse of the Mummy (Table of Contents)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Rudy Palais (signed originally)

Inks:

Rudy Palais (signed originally)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Retribution (host)

Synopsis:

Three explorers experience a mummy's curse, with fatal consequences.

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• from Four Favorites (Ace Magazines, 1941 series) #23 (May 1946) [Come! Let me take you back through 3,000 years]

Indexer Notes

Reworked and censored to meet approval of the Comics Code Authority.

The Scarlet Curse (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

A witch takes over the body of another woman, but can be shot by the police.

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• from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #17 (November 1952)

The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric (Table of Contents)

text story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

In a trial of courage, Gregory Tamoric is supposed to stick a sabre into a grave at midnight on the local cemetery. He accidentally pierces his long cloak with the weapon, trips, falls down and dies of shock - thinking a skeleton has grabbed his foot.

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• from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #17 (April 1953)

Indexer Notes

Bottom of second page has statement of ownership identifying A. A. Wyn as publisher and business manager and M. J. Phillips as editor.

Boomerang Bullet (Table of Contents)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Retribution (host)

Synopsis:

Dennis Hilton murders for money, but his conscience haunts him. He kills himself when confronted with the police.

Indexer Notes

Story begins with sentence:
"Dennis Hilton had a theory about a man's conscience".
Looks like old reprint from FOUR FAVORITES # 25 or #27.
Can’t tell which one, both of those issues are missing on DCM.
Reworked and censored to meet approval of the Comics Code Authority.