Digital Comic Museum - Web of Mystery 020 -c2c


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Issue: #20
Published: September 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: Jim McLaughlin ? \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Out of the Black Night
Synopsis:	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...
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #39
Featuring:	True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis:	"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.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	What Was It?
Synopsis:	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.
Credits:	Pencils: Jim McLaughlin \| Inks: Jim McLaughlin \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #40
Featuring:	True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis:	"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.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Phantom Puppet
Synopsis:	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.
Credits:	Pencils: Lin Streeter \| Inks: Lin Streeter
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Peter Lucas (puppetmaster, Death) Mrs. Brudge (Lucas' Landlady, Edgar's Wife) Edgar Brudge Living Puppet (villain, Death)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Devil's Offer
Synopsis:	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?
Credits:	Letters: Typeset
Genre:	Detective-mystery Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Crimson Hands Against Him
Synopsis:	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.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

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