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Issue: The Purple Claw #2
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagToby
Brand: A Minoan MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Minoan Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 203.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Web Of Horror

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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Countess Arachni
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Pages: 1
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The Web of Horror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Italo Schiasi (death); Enzo (death); Baron Latro (death); Countess Arachni (first appearance)
First Line: They called it the valley of horror...!
Synopsis: Dr. Weir travels to the Valley of Horror to visit his friend Dr. Italo Schiasi. Unfortunately, Dr. Schiasi is already dead at the hands of a giant spider. Dr. Weir accuses Baron Latro of killing him out of jealousy. The Countess Arachni manages to steal the Purple Claw from him. When Weir travels to her castle he is caught in a web. The Countess rescues him by killing Baron Latro in his spider form and taking Dr. Weir to her castle. Because he knows too much the Countess also transforms into a giant spider. He recovers the Purple Claw to defeat the Countess.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #10 published April 1954
as The Web of Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #5 published January 1992
as The Web of Horror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPurple Claw Mysteries #1 published January 1994
as The Web of Horror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white; original in color
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Pages: 9
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The Killer In the Snow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Don Elkins (death); Preta Palley Elkins (death); Peter Palley (as the snowman, death); Agnes (death); Fred Grady (death)
First Line: As best man I give you the bride and bridegroom, Don and Petra Elkins.
Synopsis: A skiing party is confronted with a killer snowman - avenging his murder years ago. One by one the wrongdoers meet their icy fate. Dr. Jonathan Weir aka "The Purple Claw" can only save himself.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #10 published April 1954
as The Killer in the Snow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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The Serpent Strikes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Anne Windom; Ted Redding; Leera Redding (death)
First Line: To lovely Anne Windom, Ted Redding's marriage to the exotic jungle-born Leera brought nightmares of snakes as well as heartbreak.
Synopsis: Dr. Jonathan Weir battles Leera, a weresnake woman preying upon a befriended couple.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Horror #10 published April 1954
as The Serpent Strikes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFemForce #42 published October 1991
as The Serpent Strikes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Sparks of Life

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pop, what and where is Kara Nor?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 6 single panel cartoons reprinted from newspaper comics: "The Good Old Days," "Jobs We'd Love" et al.
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Brief Stop at Lambeau

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
First Line: Henri Roche was a man of drastic action.
Synopsis: Parisian killer Henri Roche awakes in limbo and meets the cursed hangman of the afterworld - who will hang him again.
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U.S. Marines in the Boxer Rebellion

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Capt. John Twiggs Myers; Major Littleton Waller
First Line: In the spring of 1900, Capt. John Twiggs Meyers [sic]
Synopsis: Historical account of US intervention in China, summer 1900.
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