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Issue: Web of Mystery #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1953
 
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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: 06/23/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Jim McLaughlin ?
?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, occult
Boil, boil, cauldron of evil!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Out of the Black Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Lou Cameron (signed)
Lou Cameron (signed)
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, occult
A vampire scare hangs over a little town. When a new boy at school confesses that his daddy is a vampire, the elderly school teacher Miss Albright investigates. Meeting the boy's father she discovers that he really is a vampire. But not the one she has been looking for...
Reprinting
FlagTales of Voodoo v4 #3 published May 1971
as There's a Blood-Sucker Among Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
Miscellaneous
7
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #39

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, occult
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
"In the museum of a central european country, there is a statue of two men which causes comment..." A sculptor, working on the faces of two struggling men, is killed by his brother. When the sculpture is revealed, the statues mysteriously show the faces of murderer and victim.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
What Was It?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jim McLaughlin
Jim McLaughlin
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, occult
Brilliant scientist Latham constructs a telescope-like thought machine which pulls alien intelligence down to earth. Having just killed his wife in a domestic quarrel, the alien intruder takes over Flora's body. Alien Flora urges Latham to adjust the machine's beam so that millions of invaders can come down to earth. In a last effort, the scientist blows up his laboratory, thus saving the day.
Reprinting
FlagWeird Worlds v2 #2 published April 1971
as The Ogre from Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
Miscellaneous
7
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #40

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, occult
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
"The vampire of Belden Castle, in the Black Mountains of Hungary, is an oft-discussed item..." Tourists are attacked in their sleep by a vampire lady. One escapes, "but not before he snapped a picture of the scene". When rescue teams arrive to investigate about the photograph, they find only cobwebs.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Phantom Puppet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Lin Streeter
Lin Streeter
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Peter Lucas (puppetmaster, death); Mrs. Brudge (Lucas' landlady, Edgar's wife); Edgar Brudge; living puppet (villain, death)
Puppet master Lucas creates a wooden doll of Jack The Ripper, and to his astonishment, the doll comes alive and goes on a murder spree. When no one believes him, Lucas (stabbed by his devilish doll) sets the house on fire, and the puppet and master perish in the flames.
Reprinting
FlagThe Beyond #1 published November 1950
was The Phantom Puppet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
The Devil's Offer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
horror, mystery, occult
In a New York bar, a man meets a stranger promising him fulfillment of his darkest wishes. He concedes and experiences in wild visions the murder of his fiancee by his own hands, a hit-and-run cardrive and the the tortures of hell. As the man comes to his senses again, nothing seems to have happened. Opening a newspaper, he learns that all those things really happened. Is he now due for the tortures of hell?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
An almost psychedelic piece, remarkable.
Crimson Hands Against Him

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sy Grudko
Sy Grudko
?
typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
horror, occult
A magician loses his hands and gets new ones transplanted, which belong to a murderer executed 200 years before. While the magician starts strangling people, the ghost of the killer returns to reclaim his hands.
Reprinting
FlagWitches Tales v4 #6 published November 1972
as Bloody Ten Fingers [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
 
Miscellaneous
7

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