Web of Mystery
#28
(May 1955)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
The Haunted Three
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Retribution (host)
- Synopsis
- Three murderers on the run meet their poetic justice.
- Reprints
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from Four Favorites (Ace Magazines, 1941 series) #22 (March 1946)
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Indexer Notes
Palais signature on original. Reworked and censored (gun and body removed, flames from second body removed). Originally untitled.
Curse of the Mummy
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Retribution (host)
- Synopsis
- Three explorers experience a mummy's curse, with fatal consequences.
- Reprints
- from Four Favorites (Ace Magazines, 1941 series) #23 (May 1946)
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Indexer Notes
Palais signature on original. Reworked and censored to meet approval of the Comics Code Authority. Originally untitled.
The Scarlet Curse
text story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- A witch takes over the body of another woman, but can be shot by the police.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #17 (November 1952)
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The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric
text story / 1.67 pages
- Characters
- Gregory Tamoric
- 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.
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #17 (April 1953)
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[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
Indexer Notes
A. A. Wyn, publisher and business manager, and M. J. Phillips, editor.
Boomerang Bullet
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Dennis Hilton; Retribution (host)
- Synopsis
- Dennis Hilton murders for money, but his conscience haunts him. He kills himself when confronted with the police.
- Reprints
- from Four Favorites (Ace Magazines, 1941 series) #25 (September 1946)
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Indexer Notes
Power signature on original story which was untitled. Reworked and censored to meet approval of the Comics Code Authority.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Haunted Three
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2.
Curse of the Mummy
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3.
The Scarlet Curse
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4.
The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric
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5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
Boomerang Bullet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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