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Issue: Web of Mystery #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1951
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Issues: #3 of 29 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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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
Indicia Frequency:
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
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Curse of the Condemned Gypsy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jay Scott Pike
Inker(s): Jay Scott Pike
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed.
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #22 published September 1954
as Curse of the Condemned Gypsy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #5

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Appel
Inker(s): George Appel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis: "Shortly after the discovery of America, Don Carlos Rodriguez de Castro, a spanish nobleman, was condemned as a political enemy..." De Castro became a pirate, fought the spanish crown and hid his treasure well. Anyone who tried to take away the loot, was cursed and died on the instant.
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Pages: 1
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Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s): Vince Alascia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #27 published July 1954
as Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #6

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Appel
Inker(s): George Appel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis: "In 1943, Major Carlton Field of english intelligence returned to London following failure on a secret mission..." Major field encounters Dmitri Falakian, who claims to be in possession of a liquid of eternal youth. Showing it to Field, he loses it and lets it drop to earth. As the vial shatters, Falakian crumbles to a skeleton, because he is 378 years old.
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The Face in the Fog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Martin “Marty” Rose (signed)
Inker(s): Martin “Marty” Rose (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: A man has to get to his pregnant wife in San Francisco. All planes are grounded because of heavy fog. A passenger plane has crashed in the mountains already. The man gets his flight on a small private plane coming out of nowhere. The pilot is the ghost of the crashed plane.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #29 published November 1954
as The Face in the Fog [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Signature is hidden on barrel in splash page.
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Valley of Living Dead

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Greedy diamond hunters are attacked by giant man-eating wasps.
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Pages: 2
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The Persevering Mummy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Giusto
Inker(s): Frank Giusto
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: In an american museum a mummy comes alive. Dramid cheated egyptian death-god Osiris for 5.500 years and walks the earth again. Police cannot stop him. A mysterious stranger comes to help, disrobes and reveals himself to be Osiris - claiming Dramid for the realm of the dead.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #28 published September 1954
as The Persevering Mummy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6.67

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