(September 1953)

Ace Magazines, 1951 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Bi-Monthly
On-sale Date
1953-06-23
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
A. A. Wyn, Inc.
Brand
Ace
Editing
?
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock
Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format
Was Ongoing Series

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jim McLaughlin ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Boil, boil, cauldron of evil!
Genre
horror-suspense
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Boil, boil, cauldron of evil!"]
  2. 1. Out of the Black Night
  3. 2. True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #39
    True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
  4. 3. What Was It?
  5. 4. True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #40
    True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
  6. 5. The Phantom Puppet
  7. 6. The Devil's Offer
  8. 7. Crimson Hands Against Him
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