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Issue: Web of Mystery #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #17 of 29 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: A. A. Wyn Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): M. J. Phillips
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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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[untitled]

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Lt. Colonel Reginald R. Myers, USMC Medal of Honor

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: war
Feature(s): U.S. Defense Bonds
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover. Blurb about the heroics of Lt. Colonel Myers and an ad for U.S. Defense bonds.
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Name from the Nether World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
First Line: The vampire locked himself in the circus manager's hut!
Synopsis: A male and a female vampire battle each other to the death, the surviving bat types a warning letter to "Web Of Mystery".
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v5 #6 published December 1971
as The Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 33

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
First Line: You best keep my secret, Angus, or your life will be worth nothing!
Synopsis: "A small town on the moors of Scotland boasts one of the weirdest stories ever told..." An innkeeper sells his highwayman robber-friend to the police. The robber gets hanged and his ghost returns to ruin the innkeeper's business.
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From the Graves of the Unholy

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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Carla; Vern
First Line: Why, there's a dagger sticking in the side of the tire, Carla!
Synopsis: A couple is captured and brought to a ghostly amusement park where they have to fight an evil witch.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v5 #2 published April 1971
as The Wax Witch [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6.66
Disclose Notes: Bottom of last page has statement of ownership signed by A. A. Wyn, identifying Wyn as publisher and business manager and M. J. Phillips as editor.
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 34

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
First Line: I--I need help!
Synopsis: "The Matterhorn, a huge, awesome mountain, which stands as a challenge to alpine climbers, was the scene of a strange disaster twenty-three years ago..." When one climber weakens on the way up, he is killed by the other. Reaching the top of the mountain, the dead man waits for his murderer and pushes him off the edge.
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Blood Potion of the Black Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Englishman Charles Delavan visits a friend in India and learns that his friend is a killer and worshipper of the black goddess Kali. Delavan has to kill his friend, but is being tricked into drinking a magic potion: he becomes the next in line of Kali worshippers.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird v6 #2 published March 1972
as Demon Goddess [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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Bayou Terror

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
First Line: To Whom It May Concern: My life is ebbing quickly.
Synopsis: A man marries a Bayou country woman and finds out that she is a snake monster. After having witnessed how she (in the form of Mytoa) devours human sacrifices, he shoots her dead.
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The Castle Sinister

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Thea
First Line: M'sieu Toulouse, under no circumstances will Thea ever marry you!
Synopsis: A man and woman honeymooning in a haunted castle have to fight a 400-year old wizard and his living gargoyles. They succeed.
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In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v3 #3 published June 1971
as Castle of the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey, USMC Medal of Honor

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): U.S. Defense Bonds
Character(s): First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey (photo)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside back cover. Blurb about the heroics of Lt. Commiskey and an ad for U.S. Defense bonds.
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They Mailed This Coupon... and Look What I Did for Them!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Charles Atlas (photo)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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