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Web of Mystery Comic Books Issue No. 27
Web of Mystery Comic Books Issue No. 27
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Publication November 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story One Door from Disaster (7 pages)
Synopsis The cop Mike Young arrests a beautiful vampire lady named Velma. He is seduced by her and falls in love. He helps her overcome her vampire heritage, but the untroubled togetherness will not last.
Credits Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 53 (1 page)
Synopsis "Little is known of the fabulous situation which existed many centuries ago in the foothills of the Andes mountains of south America..." Discovering a king's burial chambers, three explorers confront living mummies and one of the men is captured and made into another mummy.
Featuring True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story Valley of the Scaly Monsters (7 pages)
Synopsis In the steaming Amazon jungle, "Creature from the Black Lagoon"-like creatures kidnap a woman from an expedition. They drug her and want to make her the queen of the lizard people. Her boyfriend intervenes and buries the creatures under an avalanche of rocks.
Credits Pencils:? [“Ace” Baker] (see notes) | Inks:? [“Ace” Baker] (see notes)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Jim Vadeboncoeur refers to this artist as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.
Comic Story True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 54 (1 page)
Synopsis "Paris was in the throes of a fearful crime wave in the summer of 1893..." A son imitates his father's crimes and is beheaded by the wax dummy of the executioner who beheaded his criminal father 30 years earlier.
Featuring True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story Mission of Lost Souls (7 pages)
Synopsis The witch Zita must supply Satan with men's souls. To this purpose Zita runs a derelicts' home, the "Mission of Lost Souls", forcing her residents into a pact with the devil. The reporter Sam Brant goes in undercover and puts an end to Zita's evil reign.
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Text Story The Brass Talisman (2 pages)
Synopsis Psychologically blocked painter Varsko murders the hypnotist Lorenz, who helped him overcome his blockage by use of a magic talisman. Now in possession of the piece, Varsko makes a fatal slip-up.
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Occult
Comic Story Enigma of the Unscheduled Passenger (7 pages)
Synopsis Lucinda Dell meets stranger on a train. When he gets off, he leaves his wallet. The woman investigates. A murder mystery unravels. In the end the wrongdoer gets exposed.
Credits Pencils: Richard Case | Inks: Richard Case
Content Genre: Horror
Notes ENIGMA OF THE UNSCHEDULED PASSENGER is a retelling of a segment of "Four Star Playhouse" called "The Man on the Train" which was telecast 15 Jan. 1953 a year prior to the magazine date. The role of Lucinda Dell is played by David Niven as a London businessman who meets a stranger on the train. Also, Daniel Cohen authored "Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors" which also includes this story, so says IMDB. This episode is also on the DVD collection "Four Star Playhouse, Volume One."."
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Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story One Door from Disaster (7 pages)
Synopsis The cop Mike Young arrests a beautiful vampire lady named Velma. He is seduced by her and falls in love. He helps her overcome her vampire heritage, but the untroubled togetherness will not last.
Credits Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 53 (1 page)
Synopsis "Little is known of the fabulous situation which existed many centuries ago in the foothills of the Andes mountains of south America..." Discovering a king's burial chambers, three explorers confront living mummies and one of the men is captured and made into another mummy.
Featuring True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story Valley of the Scaly Monsters (7 pages)
Synopsis In the steaming Amazon jungle, "Creature from the Black Lagoon"-like creatures kidnap a woman from an expedition. They drug her and want to make her the queen of the lizard people. Her boyfriend intervenes and buries the creatures under an avalanche of rocks.
Credits Pencils:? [“Ace” Baker] (see notes) | Inks:? [“Ace” Baker] (see notes)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Jim Vadeboncoeur refers to this artist as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.
Comic Story True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 54 (1 page)
Synopsis "Paris was in the throes of a fearful crime wave in the summer of 1893..." A son imitates his father's crimes and is beheaded by the wax dummy of the executioner who beheaded his criminal father 30 years earlier.
Featuring True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story Mission of Lost Souls (7 pages)
Synopsis The witch Zita must supply Satan with men's souls. To this purpose Zita runs a derelicts' home, the "Mission of Lost Souls", forcing her residents into a pact with the devil. The reporter Sam Brant goes in undercover and puts an end to Zita's evil reign.
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Text Story The Brass Talisman (2 pages)
Synopsis Psychologically blocked painter Varsko murders the hypnotist Lorenz, who helped him overcome his blockage by use of a magic talisman. Now in possession of the piece, Varsko makes a fatal slip-up.
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Occult
Comic Story Enigma of the Unscheduled Passenger (7 pages)
Synopsis Lucinda Dell meets stranger on a train. When he gets off, he leaves his wallet. The woman investigates. A murder mystery unravels. In the end the wrongdoer gets exposed.
Credits Pencils: Richard Case | Inks: Richard Case
Content Genre: Horror
Notes ENIGMA OF THE UNSCHEDULED PASSENGER is a retelling of a segment of "Four Star Playhouse" called "The Man on the Train" which was telecast 15 Jan. 1953 a year prior to the magazine date. The role of Lucinda Dell is played by David Niven as a London businessman who meets a stranger on the train. Also, Daniel Cohen authored "Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors" which also includes this story, so says IMDB. This episode is also on the DVD collection "Four Star Playhouse, Volume One."."
If you have a black-and-white e-reader, or if you're not able to read or expand the pictures, you might have a better viewing experience on the Nook App for iPad, Android, or PC. If you use the Nook App for PC, you can capture screenshots for use in crafting or digital artwork.
The data here in the description content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a CC Attribution License. More details about this comic book description can be found at Grand Comics.
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