Web of Mystery
#18
(May 1953)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
The Moon Was Red
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In a French sea port the fishermen have to fight giant merman-creatures. Only old Fernande survives and puts a monster's severed finger on display.
- Reprints
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in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#2 (March 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#6 (October 1972)
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#6 (November 1974)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v4#2 (April 1980)
- in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #18 (July 2015)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #24 - Haunted Horror: Nightmare of Doom and Much More! (Volume 6) (March 2018), #23 - Lou Cameron's Unsleeping Dead (July 2018)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 35
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Circus life has always been the source of strange and haunting tales. The weirdest of these stories is still told among circus people..."
Sideshow freak Bruno gets a new tattoo, depicting a devil's figure. It is a cursed tattoo that strangles Bruno to death. - Reprints
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #14 - Devil Tales (December 2015)
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Out of Blackness They Come!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two scientists enter the realm of blackness, where demons dwell and the devil resides. They can fight their way back to our reality - scaring the devil off with a flashlight.
- Reprints
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v4#2 (March 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#5 (September 1972)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#4 (July 1974) [retitled] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#2 (May 1978)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#3 (July 1976)
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in Black Terror (Gredown, 1980 ? series) (1980 ?) - in Terrors of Dracula (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#1 (May 1981)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #14 - Devil Tales (December 2015)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 36
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "From the mysterious far east comes this eerie tale of greed and death. One day, a native guide led two European men into a deserted Indian temple..."
Trying to steal jewels from the temple, the men are crushed by a stone idol guarding the exit.
Corpses on Cue
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Exploiting the undead, Professor Skane uses a zombie for a stage show: "The man who can't be killed". Acting on behalf of the zombie's union, a female zombie companion arrives and puts a bloody end to the dishonorable display.
- Reprints
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#3 (May 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#1 (January 1972) [retitled] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#5 (October 1973)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #18 - The Return of the Zombies (September 2016)
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Wail of the Ice Dead
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Mountain climber Hugh Kennedy reaches the summit of Mt. Kelna and meets snow goddess Kelna herself and her ice creatures. They plan to encase him in a block of ice, but Kennedy escapes by lighting his trusty blowtorch.
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Table of Contents
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1.
The Moon Was Red
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2.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 35
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
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Out of Blackness They Come!
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4.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 36
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
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Corpses on Cue
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6.
Wail of the Ice Dead
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7.
Evil Twangs the Devil's Harp
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- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Jim Van Dore
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