Web of Mystery
#27
(November 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
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim McLaughlin ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You were to eager too hang the innocent, Valdis!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
New Reducing "Miracle"
Charm Co. / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
The inside front cover contains Charm Company advertisement plus the publisher & indicia information at the bottom of the page.
One Door from Disaster
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed as Lou Cameron)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed as Lou Cameron)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It began in a sleepy Florida town, this tale of a macabre and fateful attraction between a man of the law and a woman beyond the reach of human law.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The cop Mike Young arrests a beautiful vampire lady named Velma. He is seduced by her and falls in love. He helps her overcome her vampire heritage, but the untroubled togetherness will not last.
- Reprints
-
in Weird Romance (Eclipse, 1988 series) #1 (February 1988) - in Vampires Halloween Special (Asylum Press, 2022 series) #1 (2022)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 53
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I think we've stumbled on the anteroom to the King's burial chamber.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Little is known of the fabulous situation which existed many centuries ago in the foothills of the Andes mountains of south America..."
Discovering a king's burial chambers, three explorers confront living mummies and one of the men is captured and made into another mummy. - Reprints
Valley of the Scaly Monsters
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You drink now!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In the steaming Amazon jungle, "Creature from the Black Lagoon"-like creatures kidnap a woman from an expedition. They drug her and want to make her the queen of the lizard people. Her boyfriend intervenes and buries the creatures under an avalanche of rocks.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #2 (January 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur refers to this artist, Frank Giusto, as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 54
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is the work of a mad-man!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Paris was in the throes of a fearful crime wave in the summer of 1893..."
A son imitates his father's crimes and is beheaded by the wax dummy of the executioner who beheaded his criminal father 30 years earlier.
Mission of Lost Souls
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This Miss Zita refuses to be interviewed by reporters, but she's never turned down a rumdum outcast who needs a night's lodging!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The witch Zita must supply Satan with men's souls. To this purpose Zita runs a derelicts' home, the "Mission of Lost Souls", forcing her residents into a pact with the devil. The reporter Sam Brant goes in undercover and puts an end to Zita's evil reign.
- Reprints
The Brass Talisman
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The name on the door-plate said Lorenz---nothing more.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Psychologically blocked painter Varsko murders the hypnotist Lorenz, who helped him overcome his blockage by use of a magic talisman. Now in possession of the piece, Varsko makes a fatal slip-up.
Enigma of the Unscheduled Passenger
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why, how nice to know that the Maxwells haven't forgotten me.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Lucinda Dell meets stranger on a train. When he gets off, he leaves his wallet. The woman investigates. A murder mystery unravels. In the end the wrongdoer gets exposed.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #5 (July [1951])
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Indexer Notes
ENIGMA OF THE UNSCHEDULED PASSENGER is a retelling of a segment of "Four Star Playhouse" called "The Man on the Train" which was telecast 15 Jan. 1953 a year prior to the magazine date. The role of Lucinda Dell is played by David Niven as a London businessman who meets a stranger on the train. Also, Daniel Cohen authored "Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors" which also includes this story, so says IMDB. This episode is also on the DVD collection "Four Star Playhouse, Volume One."."
Get Rid of Ugly Pimples This New Easy Way!
Kerplax / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Amazing new medicated lotion developed by a doctor works wonders by clearing up skin blemishes in one week or less!
Indexer Notes
The inside back cover contains an advertisement for Underwood Laboratories' Kerplax acne remedy.
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Table of Contents
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0.
["You were to eager too hang the innocent, Valdis!"]
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1.
New Reducing "Miracle"
Charm Co. -
2.
One Door from Disaster
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3.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 53
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
4.
Valley of the Scaly Monsters
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5.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 54
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
6.
Mission of Lost Souls
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7.
The Brass Talisman
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8.
Enigma of the Unscheduled Passenger
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9.
Get Rid of Ugly Pimples This New Easy Way!
Kerplax -
10.
Amazing New Way to a Slimmer Figure
American Healthaids Company
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Steven Rowe
- Brian Stewart
- dave taeusch
- Jim Van Dore
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