Web of Mystery
#24
(May 1954)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
I Died Laughing
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When aging comedian Jud Jarman is banned from television, he comes up with a revenge plot. With the help of the death-like "Mr. Creep", Jarman supposedly fakes his suicide and haunts the people who fired him afterwards. The punch line is: Jarman really died.
- Reprints
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in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#4 (June 1972) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 (June 1974)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #47
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "A strange tale of the supernatural occurred in 1903 in a fishing village on the Florida Keyes..."
Paul Finlay is killed by his guide as he tries to recover his ancestor's treasure, but an ancient curse apparently rebounds on the guide.
Realm of Lost Faces
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Soviet adviser Ivanovitch desecrates a magic Chinese mask and pays for it with the loss of his facial features. He gets shot by his fellow communists and has to look for his missing face in the afterworld.
- Reprints
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#3 (June 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#1 (January 1973)
- in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #23 - Lou Cameron's Unsleeping Dead (July 2018)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #48
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In the midst of a cruel reign that dominated the people of Castille, a province in Spain, a tale of the supernatural that defies explanation was born..."
A gypsy's severed hands take revenge and strangle the man responsible for cutting them off.
She Shrieked with Horror
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Investment company man Talbot Stewart makes a house call at a strange place. The owner imprisons him with intent of torture and murder. Mysterious Ghrislaine, wife to the terrible Mr. Eyre, helps him escape - only to have him all for herself.
- Reprints
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#5 (October 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#5 (October 1973)
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Macabre Awakening
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Pierre Gerard awakens in a strange place and tries to remember what happened. His whole life flashes by until he realizes that he is a vampire caught in a tomb.
My Sinister Double
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Hobby scientist Jan Luddig discovers the secret of life and creates a ghost-clone of himself. Able to walk through walls, the clone commits crimes and leads an existence of his own. Luddig takes his life and the clone has to perish also.
- Reprints
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v8#1 (February 1974) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v8#1 (April 1977)
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in Reign of Terror (Gredown, 1980 ? series) ([1980]) - in Forever Dead (Gredown, 1982 ? series) ([198-?])
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
I Died Laughing
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2.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #47
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
3.
Realm of Lost Faces
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4.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #48
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
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She Shrieked with Horror
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6.
Macabre Awakening
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7.
My Sinister Double
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- Salvatore Carotenuto
- Tillmann Courth
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Smith
- Jim Van Dore
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