Web of Mystery #17

(February 1953)

Lt. Colonel Reginald R. Myers, USMC Medal of Honor (Table of Contents: 1)

U.S. Defense Bonds / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Letters

typeset

Genre

war

Indexer Notes

On inside front cover. Blurb about the heroics of Lt. Colonel Myers and an ad for U.S. Defense bonds.

Name from the Nether World (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Sy Grudko ?

Inks

Sy Grudko ?

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The vampire locked himself in the circus manager's hut!

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A male and a female vampire battle each other to the death, the surviving bat types a warning letter to "Web Of Mystery".

Reprints

• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#6 (December 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v7#1 (February 1973)
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#5 (November 1977)
• in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#1 (April 1979) [retitled]
• in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#1 (May 1981)
• in Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (Dennis Druktenis, 2009 series) #3 (2010)

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 33 (Table of Contents: 3)

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You best keep my secret, Angus, or your life will be worth nothing!

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"A small town on the moors of Scotland boasts one of the weirdest stories ever told..."
An innkeeper sells his highwayman robber-friend to the police. The robber gets hanged and his ghost returns to ruin the innkeeper's business.

From the Graves of the Unholy (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6.66 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lou Cameron

Inks

Lou Cameron

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why, there's a dagger sticking in the side of the tire, Carla!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Carla; Vern

Synopsis

A couple is captured and brought to a ghostly amusement park where they have to fight an evil witch.

Reprints

• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#2 (April 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#6 (October 1972), #v8#2 (May 1977)
• in Shuddering Fear (Gredown, 1978 ? series) ([1978])
• in The Empty Tombs (Gredown, 1985 ? series) ([198-?])
• in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v4#3 (July 1980)
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #23 - Lou Cameron's Unsleeping Dead (July 2018)

Indexer Notes

Bottom of last page has statement of ownership signed by A. A. Wyn, identifying Wyn as publisher and business manager and M. J. Phillips as editor.

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 34 (Table of Contents: 5)

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I--I need help!

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"The Matterhorn, a huge, awesome mountain, which stands as a challenge to alpine climbers, was the scene of a strange disaster twenty-three years ago..."
When one climber weakens on the way up, he is killed by the other. Reaching the top of the mountain, the dead man waits for his murderer and pushes him off the edge.

Blood Potion of the Black Cult (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Charles Nicholas

Inks

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Englishman Charles Delavan visits a friend in India and learns that his friend is a killer and worshipper of the black goddess Kali. Delavan has to kill his friend, but is being tricked into drinking a magic potion: he becomes the next in line of Kali worshippers.

Reprints

• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#2 (March 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#2 (April 1974)

Bayou Terror (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

To Whom It May Concern: My life is ebbing quickly.

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man marries a Bayou country woman and finds out that she is a snake monster. After having witnessed how she (in the form of Mytoa) devours human sacrifices, he shoots her dead.

The Castle Sinister (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

?

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Colors

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Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

M'sieu Toulouse, under no circumstances will Thea ever marry you!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Thea

Synopsis

A man and woman honeymooning in a haunted castle have to fight a 400-year old wizard and his living gargoyles. They succeed.

Reprints

• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#3 (June 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#1 (January 1973)

First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey, USMC Medal of Honor (Table of Contents: 9)

U.S. Defense Bonds / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Letters

typeset

Genre

war

Characters

First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey (photo)

Indexer Notes

On inside back cover. Blurb about the heroics of Lt. Commiskey and an ad for U.S. Defense bonds.

They Mailed This Coupon... and Look What I Did for Them! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)