Web of Mystery #23

(March 1954)

How Manuelo Died (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6.66 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jim McLaughlin

Inks:

Jim McLaughlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Proud Spaniard Manuelo wants to be a bullfighter. A witch makes it happen, as long as Manuelo provides her with the blood of others. Getting tired of the deal, Manuelo murders the crone. She returns in the form of a fierce bull.

Reprints:

• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#1 (February 1972) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#6 (November 1973)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#3 (July 1978)

Indexer Notes

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

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #45 (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sy Grudko

Inks:

Sy Grudko

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

"In a stronghold in the cellar of the London museum is a mummy case that is permanently sealed and secluded..."
It stays closed because the mummy inside likes to attack museum guards who bear a resemblance to the mummy's murderer.

Reprints:

• in Mummies!: Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics (IDW, 2017 series) (June 2017)

The Oozing Horror (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Charles Nicholas

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

By accident, a scientist evolves the ability to merge with objects. As the police hunt him for the murder of his wife, he cannot develop an anti-serum in time - and merges forever with a tree.

Reprints:

• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#5 (September 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v6#2 (March 1973) [retitled]

True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #46 (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sy Grudko

Inks:

Sy Grudko

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

"In 1873, two artists shared a studio in Paris. Martin was a sculptor of beautiful objects but he himself was ugly and deformed..."
With the power of witchcraft, he takes over the body of his handsome colleague Peter. Until the voodoo sculpture goes to pieces.

Long Arm of the Undead (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ken Rice

Inks:

Ken Rice

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Strange things happen in the Italian film industry: leading lady Maria Santori dies, but her jealous ghost keeps killing all who want to take her part. Finally Santori herself decides to finish the picture.

Reprints:

• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#5 (September 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v6#3 (May 1973)

Dark Destiny (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis:

Gordi Collins brings home to England a Tibetan girl as his wife. He has been warned that she is destined to be a priestess for her tribe when she will turn 21. It so happens. Gordi dies and the savage woman vanishes.

Woman of a Thousand Faces (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Louis Zansky

Inks:

Louis Zansky

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Somewhere in the African jungle, a 3,000-year-old sorceress rules like a tyrant and kills at will. Only a mighty witch doctor can help. Goro has to die first, then comes back as an all-powerful ghost with the ability to ban the forces of evil.

Reprints:

• in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#2 (April 1971) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#2 (March 1973)