Web of Mystery
#22
(January 1954)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- A. A. Wyn Inc.
- Brand
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Ace
- Editing
- ?
She Stalks at Sundown
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Big game hunter Ken Jorgens finds the cub of a were-tigress in Bengal and brings it back home to the US. He raises the animal, experiences its transformation into human form - and falls in love with "Tigra". Her struggle with her animal instincts poses problems though.
- Reprints
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in Monster Parade (Magnum Publications, 1958 series) #v1#4 (March 1959) - in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#3 (July 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v11#1 (March 1978)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #13 (2011)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 43
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "A tale of unbelievable mystery occurred in central Europe at the close of the nineteenth century. A prince [...] viewed the funeral procession of a band of gypsies..."
And has nothing better to do than to rob the deceased of her cursed, but magic mirror. Meant as a gift for his wife, the mirror announces the death of the prince's wife.
Halfway to Eternity
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two-bit magician Marvello travels to India to find new attractions. He assaults three fakirs and steals their magic items. When performing these on stage, Marvello runs into unexpected difficulties and gets lost in time.
- Reprints
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#3 (July 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#4 (July 1973)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 44
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "The gargoyles and weird statues that glower from the heights of the famed cathedral in Coblenz, Germany, are known throughout the world for their fine workmanship..."
A thief, robbing and killing stone mason Horner, is crushed by a stone gargoyle hurtling from the top of the roof. - Reprints
- in Monsters and Things (Magnum Publications, 1959 series) #2 (April 1959)
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Legion of the Doomed
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Ivan Buloff, a Russian commissar in occupied Hungary, has to learn the truth about "all those capitalist lies about vampires". In fighting them he finds the meaning in the proverb "history flows forward on rivers of blood".
- Reprints
- in Monsters and Things (Magnum Publications, 1959 series) #1 (January 1959)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v5#4 (June 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v10#3 (December 1977)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#1 (April 1979) [retitled]
- in House of Frightenstein (AC, 1995 series) #1 (1995) [retitled] which is reprinted
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Mask of Cardansus
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An African voodoo mask can grow and transform itself into a treasure-filled temple. When Randy Fenshaw kills the mask's proprietor, he gets trapped inside the mask and is imprisoned for all eternity.
Spectres of the Jolly Roger
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Nantucket honeymooners Charles and Ethel Webster find themselves amidst treasure-hunting ghost pirates.
- Reprints
- in Monsters and Things (Magnum Publications, 1959 series) #2 (April 1959)
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
She Stalks at Sundown
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2.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 43
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
3.
Halfway to Eternity
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4.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 44
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
5.
Legion of the Doomed
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6.
Mask of Cardansus
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7.
Spectres of the Jolly Roger
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- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Jim Van Dore
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