Web of Evil
#2
(January 1953)
Quality Comics,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1952-08-22
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Brand
-
A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Alfred Grenet
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 268.
Hangman's Horror
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jeb Daws; Dean Slade; Beach; Gendley; Hawkins; Daniel Slade
- Synopsis
- Jeb Daws is looking to run for mayor in a small town to restore democratic processes. The current corrupt mayor and his cronies want to get rid of him and frame him for murder. They then testify against him in court resulting in a guilty sentence. Jeb is condemned to die by hanging the next day. Before he dies he swears he will get revenge. Later that evening, Jebs' hanging corpse is gone and people swear that they see his ghost roaming the streets at night.
- Reprints
-
in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#6 (December 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#3 (May 1973)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v10#2 (June 1977)
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in Black Terror (Gredown, 1980 ? series) (1980 ?) - in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#2 (September 1981)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #3 (February 2013) which is reprinted
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #4 - Jack Cole's Deadly Horror (July 2013)
-
- Keywords
- ghost; hanging; scaffold
Ghost Ship
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Rival tugboat captains Hook Larson and Blackjack Grant go head to head in a small port. Grant eliminates the competition by ramming down Larson's ship. But on the anniversary of the foul deed, a ghost ship pulls into port and a hooked spectre takes revenge.
- Reprints
- in Intrigue (Quality Comics, 1955 series) #1 (January 1955)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
-
Make-Up for Death
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Theater makeup artist Karl Rageese murders three actors who talked bad about him and perishes in the same fire he layed to kill his last victim.
- Reprints
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#1 (January 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#1 (January 1974) [retitled] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#3 (October 1977)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v12#3 (September 1979), #v14#2 (July 1981), #v14#3 (November 1981)
- in Satan's Corpse (Gredown, 1981 series) (1981-1982?)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
-
The Corpse That Wouldn't Die!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Andrew Granger; Carl Granger; Charles Venable
- Synopsis
- Charles Venable is hired to translate an ancient book by Carl Granger in the hopes that it can reveal the secret to stoping his brother, Andrew.
- Reprints
- in Intrigue (Quality Comics, 1955 series) #1 (January 1955)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#2 (March 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#1 (February 1974)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v9#3 (September 1976)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#2 (April 1978)
- in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v1#5 (November 1979)
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v12#4 (December 1979)
- in The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics (Running Press Book Publishers, 2008 series) (2008)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #[3] - Zombies (2012)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #4 - Jack Cole's Deadly Horror (July 2013)
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Indexer Notes
Fred Snyder, via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4603), notes a very strong resemblance between this story and the Clark Ashton Smith short story, "The Return of the Sorcerer"
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Hangman's Horror
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1.
Hangman's Horror
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2.
Ghost Ship
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3.
Make-Up for Death
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4.
The Sobbing Thing
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5.
The Corpse That Wouldn't Die!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Tillmann Courth
- Kenneth English
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- Mike White
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