Web of Evil
#5
(July 1953)
Quality Comics,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
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A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Alfred Grenet; Richard Arnold (associate); Everett M. Arnold (general manager)
Issue Notes
Copyright 1953 by Comic Magazines.
The Man Who Died Twice
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- Lester Paley is framed for a murder he did not commit. He dies in the electric chair, but it’s all a set-up. He is only stunned by the electricity and proclaimed dead by a bribed doctor. The criminal undertaker Anson claims his body and “revives” Paley in his laboratory. He is made to believe that he can only continue living by taking Anson’s drugs. Anson commands Paley to kill the judge. Paley, however, comes to his senses, realizes that Anson framed him in the first place and takes revenge.
- Reprints
-
in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#7 (December 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#6 (November 1974)
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in Deeds of the Diabolical (Gredown, 1980 ? series) ([1980]) - in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #4 - Jack Cole's Deadly Horror (July 2013)
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Laughter from Hell
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- Old and wealthy John Grome won’t part with his money, so his unfaithful wife Della joins family lawyer Loring in a fiendish plot. With the help of rubber masks and party tricks they try to drive Grome insane. But Grome sees through their machinations, pretends to have gone mad and sets up a deadly trap for the crooked couple.
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Vengeful Curse
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Andrew Craven leaves his friend Dave Burk to die in a hole after claiming the riches they were digging for together for himself and taunts Dave that he will marry his fiance Elsa. Before dying, Dave puts a curse on Andrew. After Andrew builds a home above the hole where Dave's corpse lies, the curse comes true destroying Andrew and Elsa.
- Reprints
- in Intrigue (Quality Comics, 1955 series) #1 (January 1955)
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#6 (November 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Voodoo (Gredown, 1975 ? series) #3
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#4 (August 1973), #v7#3 (August 1976)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #1 (October 2012) which is reprinted
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #4 - Jack Cole's Deadly Horror (July 2013)
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The Corpse That Wouldn't Hide
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Walter Mains lives on the allowance of his wife, the successful chemical inventor Anna Mains. They both make their lives a living hell. One day Walter can’t stand it anymore, strangles Anna to death and plans to burn her in the house and make it look like she was smoking in bed. To Walter’s horror, nothing in the house will burn, because Anna invented a fireproof chemical.
- Reprints
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#6 (December 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#1 (February 1973)
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#2 (May 1977)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v4#3 (July 1980)
- in Shriek of Despair (Gredown, 1983 ? series) ([1983])
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Man Who Died Twice
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1.
The Man Who Died Twice
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2.
Laughter from Hell
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3.
The Vengeful Curse
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4.
Lair of Doom
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5.
The Corpse That Wouldn't Hide
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Kenneth English
- Gregory Fischer
- Mark Q
- Ramon Schenk
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- Mike White
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