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Issue: Web of Mystery #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1951
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Issues: #5 of 29 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ace Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Vengeance Weaves a Tapestry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter
Inker(s): Lin Streeter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Curator Teleman from Chicago searches an ancient tapestry in a castle in Germany. He awakens the sleeping vampire duke Ludwig von Hohenstaufen. The fiend kills a number of people before he can be destroyed by sunlight. The tapestry is found in the vampire's coffin, depicting him as the monster he always was.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird v6 #3 published April 1972
as The Hungry Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #9

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sy Grudko
Inker(s): Sy Grudko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis: "When the french army was fighting its toughest battle of World War I, tales of heroic ventures became almost commonplace..." A lieutenant is killed leading an attack. His ghost returns to complete the task.
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #26 published October 1955
as Baffling Mysteries [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Rendezvous with the Phantom Gypsies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): Ken Rice ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A gypsy boy flees the orphanage he lives in and travels with a salesman to a gypsy camp. They witness a gypsy wedding. In an outburst of jealousy the salesman kills the groom and drives away, burning down the camp. The boy escapes and is found by the police. The events he saw took place ten years ago, at the time when he was brought to the orphanage.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Hand of Fate #25b published December 1954
as Rendezvous with the Phantom Gypsies [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v4 #4 published July 1972
as The Zombies [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #10

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sy Grudko
Inker(s): Sy Grudko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis: "In the late 19th century, Alex Jayson and his wife prepared to take an expedition into the malayan jungle..." Jayson starts his trip leaving his sick wife behind. When his whole party gets lost in the jungle and dies from fever, his wife's pet bird leads him back to civilization. Sadly his wife also has perished.
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Pages: 1
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The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Leroy lettering
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #24 published January 1955
as The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird v6 #6 published October 1972
as The Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Night of Terror

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: In an underground labyrinth some men fight hordes of half-human beings who yearn to tear them apart limb from limb. One of them escapes to safety with the girl. The site of evil is obliterated in a giant explosion.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Again a breathless and pointless action-horror adventure.
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Valley of the Mayan Goddess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Martin "Marty" Rose
Inker(s): Martin "Marty" Rose
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Benedict tries to get rid of Bill, who has won the heart of the girl they both love. He shouldn't have chosen a mysterious valley in the Guatemalan jungle for his assault. The goddess of vengeance residing there sentences him to lose his mind, while Bill gets the girl anyway.
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #21 published July 1954
as Valley of the Mayan Goddess [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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