Web of Evil
#17
(August 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); Everett M. Arnold (general manager)
Terror in Chinatown
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
-
Return of the Dead
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Serge Lamont builds a machine to communicate with the dead. He uses it to learn all the magic secrets of the recently deceased magician Zendali. Zendali, however, comes back to full life and takes Lamont back to his grave.
- Reprints
-
in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #18 (January 1975) - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Fiend Who Lived Forever
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A scientist is able to make himself immortal through experimentation on human victims. He robs banks to gather enough wealth to marry his sweetheart. Nothing can kill him as he is able to survive being burned, drowned, shot at, etc. The problem is while he may be immortal, his body shows the trauma of his wounds and he's oblivious to the fact he looks like a monstrous mangled 'fiend'.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Terror in Chinatown
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The collector August Lamont searches frantically for a Chinese “book of the dead” holding great secrets. Lamont murders two book dealers to get his hands on the tome. By opening the book Lamont suffers terrible visions of past crimes – the last one showing his own murder.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
The Avenging Ghosts
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Gangsters Pete and Joey escape from their prison island in a motorboat and land on the “island of honesty” where no crime ever happens. Anyone who steals something will be imprisoned in a madhouse while his spectral form is doomed to cruise the coastline on a ship of ghosts forever.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #18 (2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Jim Mooney ? for pencils and inks.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Terror in Chinatown
-
1.
Return of the Dead
-
2.
The Fiend Who Lived Forever
-
3.
Terror in Chinatown
-
4.
Death's Challenge
-
5.
The Avenging Ghosts
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Kenneth English
- Gregory Fischer
- James Ludwig
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- Mike White
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.