Web of Mystery #20

(September 1953)

Out of the Black Night (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lou Cameron (signed)

Inks

Lou Cameron (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A vampire scare hangs over a little town. When a new boy at school confesses that his daddy is a vampire, the elderly school teacher Miss Albright investigates. Meeting the boy's father she discovers that he really is a vampire. But not the one she has been looking for...

Reprints

• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v4#3 (May 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#5 (November 1972)
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#1 (February 1975)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v10#[1] (January 1979)
• in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#3 (October 1979)
• in Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (Dennis Druktenis, 2009 series) #2 (2010)
• in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #19 (October 2015)
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #25 - Haunted Horror: Cry from the Coffin! And Much More! (Volume 7) (January 2019)

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #39 (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"In the museum of a central european country, there is a statue of two men which causes comment..."
A sculptor, working on the faces of two struggling men, is killed by his brother. When the sculpture is revealed, the statues mysteriously show the faces of murderer and victim.

What Was It? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jim McLaughlin

Inks

Jim McLaughlin

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Brilliant scientist Latham constructs a telescope-like thought machine which pulls alien intelligence down to earth. Having just killed his wife in a domestic quarrel, the alien intruder takes over Flora's body. Alien Flora urges Latham to adjust the machine's beam so that millions of invaders can come down to earth. In a last effort, the scientist blows up his laboratory, thus saving the day.

Reprints

• in Weird Worlds (Eerie Publications, 1970 series) #v2#2 (April 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#6 (October 1972), #v8#4 [5] (October 1974), #v11#2 (June 1978) [retitled]
• in The Empty Tombs (Gredown, 1985 ? series) ([198-?])

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #40 (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"The vampire of Belden Castle, in the Black Mountains of Hungary, is an oft-discussed item..."
Tourists are attacked in their sleep by a vampire lady. One escapes, "but not before he snapped a picture of the scene". When rescue teams arrive to investigate about the photograph, they find only cobwebs.

The Phantom Puppet (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lin Streeter

Inks

Lin Streeter

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Peter Lucas (puppetmaster, death); Mrs. Brudge (Lucas' landlady, Edgar's wife); Edgar Brudge; living puppet (villain, death)

Synopsis

Puppet master Lucas creates a wooden doll of Jack The Ripper, and to his astonishment, the doll comes alive and goes on a murder spree. When no one believes him, Lucas (stabbed by his devilish doll) sets the house on fire, and the puppet and master perish in the flames.

Reprints

• from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #1 (November 1950)

Keywords

London Times; Scotland Yard

The Devil's Offer (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

Typeset

Genre

detective-mystery; horror-suspense

Synopsis

In a New York bar, a man meets a stranger promising him fulfillment of his darkest wishes. He concedes and experiences in wild visions the murder of his fiancee by his own hands, a hit-and-run cardrive and the the tortures of hell. As the man comes to his senses again, nothing seems to have happened. Opening a newspaper, he learns that all those things really happened. Is he now due for the tortures of hell?

Indexer Notes

An almost psychedelic piece, remarkable.

Crimson Hands Against Him (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sy Grudko

Inks

Sy Grudko

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A magician loses his hands and gets new ones transplanted, which belong to a murderer executed 200 years before. While the magician starts strangling people, the ghost of the killer returns to reclaim his hands.

Reprints

• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#6 (November 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v7#5 (September 1974)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#3 (October 1977)
• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v12#3 (September 1979)