Web of Evil
#10
(January 1954)
Quality Comics,
1952 Series
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher:
- Comic Magazines
- Brand:
- A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing:
- Alfred Grenet; Richard Arnold (Associate editor); Everett M. Arnold (General manager)
- Color:
- color cover
- Dimensions:
- standard Golden Age US
- Paper Stock:
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing series
Death's Highway
comic story / 9 pages
- Script:
- Jack Cole ?
- Pencils:
- Charles Nicholas
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Torpo and Randy, two hitmen for the mob, crash their car on the way to the next job. They stay miraculously unharmed and encounter their former victims. It dawns upon them that they have died and have to face a court of justice beyond the grave.
- Reprints:
-
in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#1 (April 1976) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v11#4 (December 1978)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #4 - Jack Cole's Deadly Horror (July 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested Jack Cole ? for pencils and inks.
The Cavern of the Damned
comic story / 6 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Synopsis:
- World traveler and explorer Lloyd Ramsey is exploring some underwater caverns and encounters a race of human looking aliens with three eyes. These beings plan on infiltrating society and overthrowing humanity. They can walk among us using a special spray to hide their third eye. Lloyd escapes and tries to warn everyone about the invasion, but finds that not only does no-one believe him, but they have already began integrating into society.
- Reprints:
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #6 (August 2013) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer suggested Vernon Henkel ? for pencils and inks.
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
comic story / 7 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Cole ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Criminal mastermind Benny “the Brain” Bronson goes to the electric chair, but Dr. Andre Renard steals his head from out of the grave and manages to revive the brain. The brain then commands the doctor to execute his revenge. So Renard starts killing Bronson’s treacherous colleagues and the judge who convicted him.
- Reprints:
Indexer Notes
Previous credits saw John Forte ? involved in pencils and inks.
The Spectre of Fate
comic story / 6 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Chuck Cuidera ?
- Inks:
- Chuck Cuidera ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Eric Marston unwillingly is a stowaway on the cruise liner “Queen Ann” and witnesses the ship’s sinking after a collision with an iceberg. He survives, however, because he was not meant to die. An emissary of fate appears to him and declares him to be his successor. Marston is doomed to act as a “spectre of death” for the rest of his days.
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Spectre of Fate
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1.
Death's Highway
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2.
The Cavern of the Damned
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3.
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
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4.
Dancing Skeletons
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5.
The Spectre of Fate
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- Wilhelm Dohmeier
- Tillmann Courth
- Mike White
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- Jim Walls
- Keith Smith
- Jim Van Dore
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