(June 1951)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ace Books Inc.
- Brand
-
An Ace Magazine
Curse of the Condemned Gypsy
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed.
- Reprints
-
in Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #22 (September 1954)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #5
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Shortly after the discovery of America, Don Carlos Rodriguez de Castro, a spanish nobleman, was condemned as a political enemy..."
De Castro became a pirate, fought the spanish crown and hid his treasure well. Anyone who tried to take away the loot, was cursed and died on the instant.
Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed.
- Reprints
- in The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #27 (July 1954)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #6
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In 1943, Major Carlton Field of english intelligence returned to London following failure on a secret mission..."
Major field encounters Dmitri Falakian, who claims to be in possession of a liquid of eternal youth. Showing it to Field, he loses it and lets it drop to earth. As the vial shatters, Falakian crumbles to a skeleton, because he is 378 years old.
The Face in the Fog
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man has to get to his pregnant wife in San Francisco. All planes are grounded because of heavy fog. A passenger plane has crashed in the mountains already. The man gets his flight on a small private plane coming out of nowhere. The pilot is the ghost of the crashed plane.
- Reprints
- in The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #29 (November 1954)
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Indexer Notes
Signature is hidden on barrel in splash page.
Valley of Living Dead
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Greedy diamond hunters are attacked by giant man-eating wasps.
The Persevering Mummy
comic story / 6.67 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In an american museum a mummy comes alive. Dramid cheated egyptian death-god Osiris for 5.500 years and walks the earth again. Police cannot stop him. A mysterious stranger comes to help, disrobes and reveals himself to be Osiris - claiming Dramid for the realm of the dead.
- Reprints
- in The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #28 (September 1954)
- in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies (Yoe Books, 2017 series) (June 2017)
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Indexer Notes
Frank Giusto is the real name of the artist often called "Ace Baker" for his Matt Baker art style.
This story doesn't look as smooth as usual...
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
Curse of the Condemned Gypsy
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2.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #5
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
3.
Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch
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4.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #6
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
5.
The Face in the Fog
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6.
Valley of Living Dead
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7.
The Persevering Mummy
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- Brian Dobbelaere
- Michael Hoskin
- Steven Rowe
- Jim Van Dore
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