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Issue: Web of Mystery #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1951
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Issues: #1 of 29 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: An Ace MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ace Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Warren Kremer ?
Inker(s): Warren Kremer ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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The Case of the Beckoning Mummy

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?; Arthur Peddy ?
Inker(s): Vince Alascia ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Archeologist Damon Knight excavates an ancient egypt tomb. He is warned by the ghost of the 8,000 years old mummy of Kali-Dahn not to desecrate his burial chamber. As Knight continues, he gets lured into the tomb and has to take the mummy's place.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v6 #3 published April 1972
as The Mummy's Revenge [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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True Creepy Tales #1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): True Creepy Tales
Synopsis: "We may laugh at the thought of ghosts. That's what the young Smiths, who were spending their honeymoon in Massachusetts, did". As the couple goes on a canoe trip at night, they encounter an indian ghost canoe and get capsized. They manage to swim to safety though.
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Venom of the Vampires

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Martin “Marty” Rose
Inker(s): Martin “Marty” Rose ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A plane goes down in Honduras. The pilot, a young woman and Count Vacrini survive and make their way to the jungle. They encounter bloodsucking bats and an indian tribe. Vacrini turns out to be a necromancer and wounds the indian chief. He is killed for that, but returns as a fullgrown vampire. The pilot locks him inside a cave, where Vacrini is eaten alive by small vampire bats. Pilot and girl marry.
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In Content Item: FlagTerror Tales v4 #4 published June 1972
as The Vampires [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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True Creepy Tales #2

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Feature(s): True Creepy Tales
Synopsis: "There is a belief among the village people of Yorkshire, England, that the soul always returns to the body once in twenty-four hours until after the funeral..." A hunter gives a lift to a taciturn traveller. On inquiring about his passenger later on, he learns that the man died a day ago.
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Disclose Notes: Feature continues as True Tales of Unexplained Mystery in Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #2 (April 1951).
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The Lamenting Voice of the Bell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: The deformed hunchback Hans Walden is a masterful bell-caster. His bells sound like the voices of angels - because he melts human bodies in the boiling cauldron as well. After manufacturing an old friend into a new bell, Walden is haunted by the ghostly tolling of the bell. He breaks down and confesses.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v5 #5 published August 1972
as The Horror Bell [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 6.66
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Model For a Madman

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A mad painter kills women to portrait their horror on canvas. His latest victim outwits him, sets fire to his place and escapes.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #9 published March 1952
as Model for a Madman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Ghost Ship of the Caribbean

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A young couple steer their boat into a hurricane and end up on a pirate ghost ship. The crew want to murder them, but they are protected by the captain's ghost, who turns out to be the man's great grandfather.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Voodoo v5 #4 published June 1972
as The Transparent Ones [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7

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